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1218196

	registered interest
	date	26/06/2020
	answering body	Department for Work and Pensions
	answering dept id	29
	answering dept short name	Work and Pensions
	answering dept sort name	Work and Pensions
	hansard heading	State Retirement Pensions: Females
	house id	1
	legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
	question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions, whether the underpayments of state pension to women who have not received their full state pension will be passed on to the (a) surviving spouse and (b) beneficiaries of a will where a female pensioner is deceased.
	tabling member constituency	Birmingham, Erdington
	tabling member printed	Jack Dromey
	type	WrittenParliamentaryQuestion
	uin	65109
	answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 02/07/2020 answer text <p>Where arrears of Cat BL pension are payable, they will be distributed to those who have a legitimate claim to the monies. This could include the surviving spouse and the beneficiaries of a will.</p> answering member constituency Hexham answering member printed Guy Opperman question first answered 02/07/2020 13:23:10 answering member 4142 label Biography information for Guy Opperman previous answer version 33974 answering member constituency Hexham answering member printed Guy Opperman answering member 4142 label Biography information for Guy Opperman
	tabling member	3913 label Biography information for Jack Dromey

1218873

	registered interest
	date	29/06/2020
	answering body	Department for Work and Pensions
	answering dept id	29
	answering dept short name	Work and Pensions
	answering dept sort name	Work and Pensions
	hansard heading	State Retirement Pensions: Females
	house id	1
	legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
	question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions, what steps she is taking to use the Government’s administrative data to identify married women who are not receiving the level of state pension to which they are entitled; how many of those women have been identified; what the average value is of those backdated state pension payments, and if she will make a statement.
	tabling member constituency	Birmingham, Erdington
	tabling member printed	Jack Dromey
	type	WrittenParliamentaryQuestion
	uin	66002
	answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 06/07/2020 answer text <p>We are aware of a number of cases where individuals have been underpaid State Pension. We corrected our records and reimbursed those affected as soon as errors were identified.</p><p> </p><p>We would encourage anyone who thinks they have failed to claim a State Pension increase they are eligible for to contact the department.</p> answering member constituency Hexham answering member printed Guy Opperman question first answered 06/07/2020 16:36:31 answering member 4142 label Biography information for Guy Opperman previous answer version 34350 answering member constituency Hexham answering member printed Guy Opperman answering member 4142 label Biography information for Guy Opperman
	tabling member	3913 label Biography information for Jack Dromey

1218874

	registered interest
	date	29/06/2020
	answering body	Department for Work and Pensions
	answering dept id	29
	answering dept short name	Work and Pensions
	answering dept sort name	Work and Pensions
	hansard heading	State Retirement Pensions
	house id	1
	legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
	question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions, what criteria her Department uses to determine the circumstances in which interest is added to back payments of a state pension.
	tabling member constituency	Birmingham, Erdington
	tabling member printed	Jack Dromey
	type	WrittenParliamentaryQuestion
	uin	66003
	answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 07/07/2020 answer text <p>The DWP has a discretionary special payment scheme and the current criteria has been in place since 2012. If a benefit payment has been delayed DWP can consider a payment to recognise any erosion in the value of the money. Special payments for ‘interest’ are calculated using <a href="https://www.gov.uk/government/publications/rates-and-allowances-hmrc-interest-rates-for-late-and-early-payments/rates-and-allowances-hmrc-interest-rates" target="_blank">HMRC’s repayment interest rate</a>.</p> answering member constituency Hexham answering member printed Guy Opperman question first answered 07/07/2020 13:41:58 answering member 4142 label Biography information for Guy Opperman previous answer version 34351 answering member constituency Hexham answering member printed Guy Opperman answering member 4142 label Biography information for Guy Opperman
	tabling member	3913 label Biography information for Jack Dromey

1218875

	registered interest
	date	29/06/2020
	answering body	Department for Work and Pensions
	answering dept id	29
	answering dept short name	Work and Pensions
	answering dept sort name	Work and Pensions
	hansard heading	State Retirement Pensions
	house id	1
	legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
	question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions, whether entitlement to a Category D pension requires a person to make a claim.
	tabling member constituency	Birmingham, Erdington
	tabling member printed	Jack Dromey
	type	WrittenParliamentaryQuestion
	uin	66004
	answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 07/07/2020 answer text <p>A claim for a Category D State Pension is required (under section 1 of the Social Security Administration Act 1992), unless the individual is resident in Great Britain at age 80 and is already getting another category of State Pension (Section 1 and Social Security (Claims and Payments) Regulations 1987, Regulation 3(1)(b)).</p> answering member constituency Hexham answering member printed Guy Opperman question first answered 07/07/2020 16:39:36 answering member 4142 label Biography information for Guy Opperman previous answer version 34352 answering member constituency Hexham answering member printed Guy Opperman answering member 4142 label Biography information for Guy Opperman
	tabling member	3913 label Biography information for Jack Dromey

1218876

	registered interest
	date	29/06/2020
	answering body	Department for Work and Pensions
	answering dept id	29
	answering dept short name	Work and Pensions
	answering dept sort name	Work and Pensions
	hansard heading	State Retirement Pensions: Females
	house id	1
	legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
	question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions, whether a widow is entitled to claim back underpaid state pension for periods before she was widowed.
	tabling member constituency	Birmingham, Erdington
	tabling member printed	Jack Dromey
	type	WrittenParliamentaryQuestion
	uin	66005
	answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 06/07/2020 answer text <p>In circumstances where it is identified that individuals are entitled to arrears of underpaid State Pension, these are paid in accordance with relevant legislation (section 1 of the Social Security Administration Act 1992) if a claim to Category BL is required, and if a claim is not required Social Security ((Claims and Payments) Regs 1987, reg 3(cb)).</p><p> </p><p>Any person seeking to claim can get assistance if they call The Pension Service on its Freephone number 0800 731 0469.</p> answering member constituency Hexham answering member printed Guy Opperman question first answered 06/07/2020 16:44:22 answering member 4142 label Biography information for Guy Opperman previous answer version 34353 answering member constituency Hexham answering member printed Guy Opperman answering member 4142 label Biography information for Guy Opperman
	tabling member	3913 label Biography information for Jack Dromey

1218877

	registered interest
	date	29/06/2020
	answering body	Department for Work and Pensions
	answering dept id	29
	answering dept short name	Work and Pensions
	answering dept sort name	Work and Pensions
	hansard heading	State Retirement Pensions: Females
	house id	1
	legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
	question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions, whether a married woman is entitled to draw an immediate category BL pension when her husband reaches state pension age in cases where her husband has deferred taking his own pension.
	tabling member constituency	Birmingham, Erdington
	tabling member printed	Jack Dromey
	type	WrittenParliamentaryQuestion
	uin	66006
	answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 07/07/2020 answer text <p>Under The Pensions Act 2007 and The Social Security (State Pension and National Insurance Credits) Regulations 2009/2206, since 6 April 2010 where a husband has deferred claiming his State Pension, his spouse has been able to claim their State Pension Category BL top up from his State Pension age.</p> answering member constituency Hexham answering member printed Guy Opperman question first answered 07/07/2020 16:41:48 answering member 4142 label Biography information for Guy Opperman previous answer version 34354 answering member constituency Hexham answering member printed Guy Opperman answering member 4142 label Biography information for Guy Opperman
	tabling member	3913 label Biography information for Jack Dromey

1221054

	registered interest
	date	06/07/2020
	answering body	Department for Work and Pensions
	answering dept id	29
	answering dept short name	Work and Pensions
	answering dept sort name	Work and Pensions
	hansard heading	State Retirement Pensions: Females
	house id	1
	legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
	question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions, pursuant to the Answer of 2 July 2020 to Question 65109 on State Retirement Pensions: Females, what time limits apply to claiming previously underpaid state pension in cases where a female pensioner is now deceased.
	tabling member constituency	Birmingham, Erdington
	tabling member printed	Jack Dromey
	type	WrittenParliamentaryQuestion
	uin	69510
	answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 09/07/2020 answer text <p>The time limits are set out in The Social Security (Claims and Payments) Regulations 1987, regulation 30(6)(a), made pursuant to section 5(1)(q) of the Social Security Administration Act 1992. Successive governments have continued this policy.</p> answering member constituency Hexham answering member printed Guy Opperman question first answered 09/07/2020 13:21:16 answering member 4142 label Biography information for Guy Opperman
	tabling member	3913 label Biography information for Jack Dromey

1249707

	registered interest
	date	09/11/2020
	answering body	Department for Work and Pensions
	answering dept id	29
	answering dept short name	Work and Pensions
	answering dept sort name	Work and Pensions
	hansard heading	State Retirement Pensions: Females
	house id	1
	legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
	question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions, pursuant to the oral evidence to the Work and Pensions Committee, by the Permanent Secretary on DWP’s Annual Report and Accounts 2019-20 on 21 October 2020, Q96, HC 759 stating that 1,900 women have been identified by her Department as having been underpaid state pensions, what the total lump sum cash amount is that has so far been paid by her Department to those women in respect of those underpayments.
	tabling member constituency	Birmingham, Erdington
	tabling member printed	Jack Dromey
	type	WrittenParliamentaryQuestion
	uin	113049
	answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 12/11/2020 answer text <p>We are unable to provide you with the requested data at this time, the Department has plans to publish this data at a later date.</p> answering member constituency Hexham answering member printed Guy Opperman question first answered 12/11/2020 17:25:22 answering member 4142 label Biography information for Guy Opperman
	tabling member	3913 label Biography information for Jack Dromey

1299246

	registered interest
	date	03/03/2021
	answering body	Department for Work and Pensions
	answering dept id	29
	answering dept short name	Work and Pensions
	answering dept sort name	Work and Pensions
	hansard heading	State Retirement Pensions: EU Countries
	house id	1
	legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
	question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions, whether the UK-EU Trade and Cooperation Agreement, and its integrated social security protocol, provides for UK nationals who worked and accrued state pension entitlements in another EU Member State before 1 January 2021, but have not reached state pension age, to maintain their state pension rights accrued in the EU Member State, including with any indexation increases.
	tabling member constituency	Birmingham, Erdington
	tabling member printed	Jack Dromey
	type	WrittenParliamentaryQuestion
	uin	162545
	answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 09/03/2021 answer text <p>State pension arrangements are unchanged following the UK’s Exit from the EU.</p><p> </p><p>All individuals can aggregate relevant social security contributions made in EU member states towards meeting the minimum qualifying period for the UK state pension, and all UK state pension recipients in the EU will have their state pension paid (including annual increases) in line with rates in the UK. These arrangements have been agreed with the EU and all its member states on a reciprocal basis in the Withdrawal Agreement for those who moved across borders before 1 January 2021, and in the Trade and Cooperation Agreement for those who move across borders from 1 January 2021.</p> answering member constituency Hexham answering member printed Guy Opperman grouped question UIN 162546 162547 162548 question first answered 09/03/2021 16:57:32 answering member 4142 label Biography information for Guy Opperman
	tabling member	3913 label Biography information for Jack Dromey

1299247

	registered interest
	date	03/03/2021
	answering body	Department for Work and Pensions
	answering dept id	29
	answering dept short name	Work and Pensions
	answering dept sort name	Work and Pensions
	hansard heading	State Retirement Pensions: EU Countries
	house id	1
	legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
	question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions, whether the reciprocal pension rights of UK and EU nationals who have yet to reach state retirement age, which were accrued in an EU Member State or in the UK before the end of the transition period, are now subject to bilateral agreements between the UK and each EU member state.
	tabling member constituency	Birmingham, Erdington
	tabling member printed	Jack Dromey
	type	WrittenParliamentaryQuestion
	uin	162546
	answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 09/03/2021 answer text <p>State pension arrangements are unchanged following the UK’s Exit from the EU.</p><p> </p><p>All individuals can aggregate relevant social security contributions made in EU member states towards meeting the minimum qualifying period for the UK state pension, and all UK state pension recipients in the EU will have their state pension paid (including annual increases) in line with rates in the UK. These arrangements have been agreed with the EU and all its member states on a reciprocal basis in the Withdrawal Agreement for those who moved across borders before 1 January 2021, and in the Trade and Cooperation Agreement for those who move across borders from 1 January 2021.</p> answering member constituency Hexham answering member printed Guy Opperman grouped question UIN 162545 162547 162548 question first answered 09/03/2021 16:57:32 answering member 4142 label Biography information for Guy Opperman
	tabling member	3913 label Biography information for Jack Dromey