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| Department for Work and Pensions |
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To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions, in the context of married women
who reach state pension age prior to 6th April 2016, whether it is his Department's
policy for a woman who draws a category A state pension prior to her husband reaching
pension age and who is widowed after her husband reaches pension age and draws his
pension should be automatically assessed at the point of being widowed for a backdated
category BL pension in the case where her category A pension is lower than the Category
BL rate; and whether a woman over pension age with no entitlement to a category A
state pension, and who is widowed after her husband reaches pension age and draws
his pension should automatically be assessed at the point of being widowed for a deferred
Category BL pension, with her date of claim treated as the date when her late husband
first drew his pension.
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