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1402056

registered interest
date	11/01/2022
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	2
legislature	25277 pref label House of Lords
question text	To ask Her Majesty's Government how many women who were receiving less state pension than they were entitled to have (1) had their payments corrected, and (2) received back payments.
tabling member printed	Baroness Altmann
uin	HL5288
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 25/01/2022 answer text <p>I refer you to the information published on gov.uk on 22 October 2021. Please see attached document.</p> answering member printed Baroness Stedman-Scott question first answered 25/01/2022 16:36:24 answering member 4174 label Biography information for Baroness Stedman-Scott attachment 1 file name HL5288 Attachment.pdf title HL5288 Attachment
tabling member	4533 label Biography information for Baroness Altmann

1380832

registered interest
date	22/11/2021
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: Females
house id	2
legislature	25277 pref label House of Lords
question text	To ask Her Majesty's Government what assessment they have made of the report by the Parliamentary and Health Service Ombudsman Women’s State Pension age: our findings on the Department for Work and Pensions’ communication of changes, published on 19 July; and what compensation they will pay to the women affected by maladministration identified in the report.
tabling member printed	Lord Sikka
uin	HL4309
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 06/12/2021 answer text <p>The Parliamentary and Health Service Ombudsman (PHSO) has not completed his investigation. This a multi staged process and the report published on 20 July 2021 concluded stage-one of the 3- stage investigation.</p><p> </p><p>It would not be appropriate to comment on the PHSO’s report whilst the investigation is ongoing; section 7(2) of the Parliamentary Commissioner Act 1967 states that Ombudsman investigations “shall be conducted in private”.</p><p><strong> </strong></p> answering member printed Baroness Stedman-Scott question first answered 06/12/2021 12:19:47 answering member 4174 label Biography information for Baroness Stedman-Scott
tabling member	4885 label Biography information for Lord Sikka

1333878

registered interest
date	14/06/2021
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: Females
house id	2
legislature	25277 pref label House of Lords
question text	To ask Her Majesty's Government what interest rate is applied to the arrears payments for women whose automatic pension uplifts were not applied as they should have been since 2008, and who are now receiving the back-dated amounts due.
tabling member printed	Baroness Altmann
uin	HL1033
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 17/06/2021 answer text <p>Where underpayments are identified, the Department is contacting individuals to inform them of the changes to their State Pension amount and of any arrears payment they will receive in accordance with the law.</p> answering member printed Baroness Stedman-Scott question first answered 17/06/2021 14:02:50 answering member 4174 label Biography information for Baroness Stedman-Scott
tabling member	4533 label Biography information for Baroness Altmann

1333880

registered interest
date	14/06/2021
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: Females
house id	2
legislature	25277 pref label House of Lords
question text	To ask Her Majesty's Government whether they have identified why automatic pension uplifts were not applied since 2008 to women's State Pension when their husbands reached State Pension Age; and what steps they have taken to ensure that future pension payments are subject to checks.
tabling member printed	Baroness Altmann
uin	HL1035
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 17/06/2021 answer text <p>As set out in the written statement of 4<sup>th</sup> March 2021, laid in both Houses, the Department IT systems produce an electronic prompt to consider if an individual’s State Pension amount should be increased. The prompt requires Department Staff to take further manual action and, in some cases, this did not take place.</p><p> </p><p>The Department is undertaking additional quality assurance checks to ensure that State Pension payments are accurate.</p> answering member printed Baroness Stedman-Scott question first answered 17/06/2021 14:03:09 answering member 4174 label Biography information for Baroness Stedman-Scott
tabling member	4533 label Biography information for Baroness Altmann

1289389

registered interest
date	24/02/2021
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: Females
house id	2
legislature	25277 pref label House of Lords
question text	To ask Her Majesty's Government what assessment they have made of (1) the number of women who did not receive the automatic uplifts to their State Pension under the rules applying from 17 March 2008, and (2) the number of women who failed to claim uplifts due prior to March 2008.
tabling member printed	Baroness Altmann
uin	HL13641
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 11/03/2021 answer text <p>1) On the 4 March, I laid a written statement (UIN HLWS818) to inform the House that the Department had formally commenced a State Pension correction exercise on 11 January 2021. The estimates around the number of individuals effected by this issue are highly uncertain and will be continuously revised as the correction activity progresses.</p><p> </p><p>2) No assessment has been made.</p> answering member printed Baroness Stedman-Scott question first answered 11/03/2021 16:36:37 answering member 4174 label Biography information for Baroness Stedman-Scott
tabling member	4533 label Biography information for Baroness Altmann

1285817

registered interest
date	10/02/2021
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: Females
house id	2
legislature	25277 pref label House of Lords
question text	To ask Her Majesty's Government what assessment they have made of (1) the number of women who did not receive an automatic uplift to their State Pension under the 2009 pension rule changes, and (2) the number of women who did not claim pension uplifts that they were due prior to 2009.
tabling member printed	Baroness Altmann
uin	HL13221
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 22/02/2021 answer text <p>There has been no assessment of the numbers requested since there was no such State Pension rule change in 2009.</p> answering member printed Baroness Stedman-Scott question first answered 22/02/2021 16:17:00 answering member 4174 label Biography information for Baroness Stedman-Scott
tabling member	4533 label Biography information for Baroness Altmann

1200995

registered interest
date	08/06/2020
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	2
legislature	25277 pref label House of Lords
question text	Her Majesty's Government, further to reports that women have received incorrect State Pension payments based on their husband’s record, what assessment they have made of the numbers of women who did not receive automatic uplifts to their State Pension under the post-2008 rules; and what has been their assessment of why the automatic uplifts were not paid.
tabling member printed	Baroness Altmann
uin	HL5337
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 18/06/2020 answer text <p>As has been the case under successive governments of different political persuasions. Those who are already getting a State Pension based on their own National Insurance contributions must make a separate claim for the top up if their husband reached State Pension age before 17 March 2008.</p><p> </p><p>Any women who believe they are being underpaid State Pension should contact the Department. Details on how to do this through the Pension Service are available on the Gov.uk website.</p><p> </p><p>We are checking to find other individuals who may have been affected.</p> answering member printed Baroness Stedman-Scott question first answered 18/06/2020 16:02:38 answering member 4174 label Biography information for Baroness Stedman-Scott
tabling member	4533 label Biography information for Baroness Altmann

1088555

registered interest
date	13/03/2019
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	2
legislature	25277 pref label House of Lords
question text	To ask Her Majesty's Government what plans they have to reinstate the deferred pensions of those women born in the 1950s who were meant to receive their pensions aged 60; and what assessment they have made of whether those women were given sufficient notice of the deferment.
tabling member printed	Lord Bird
uin	HL14515
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 25/03/2019 answer text <p>Successive governments of different political persuasions have taken the same approach to increased life expectancy and equality between 1995–2019. The Government has no plans to revisit the policy on women’s State Pension age as brought forward by the 1995 pensions Act or the 2011 Pensions Act, and does not intend to make further concessions. The changes in the 2011 Act occurred following a public Call for Evidence and extensive debates in Parliament. A concession limiting the increase in State Pension age under the 2011 Act in any individual case to 18 months, relative to the 1995 Act timetable, has already been made during the passage Act (at the cost of £1.1 billion).</p><p> </p><p>In the years after the 1995 legislation (1995 to 2011) this equalisation was frequently reported in the media and debated at length in parliament. People were notified with leaflets, an extensive advertising campaign was carried out, and later individual letters were posted out.</p><p> </p><p>Evidence submitted to the House of Commons Work and Pensions Committee ‘Communication of state pension age changes’ in 2016 noted that there were more than 600 mentions of State Pension age equalisation in the national broadsheet and tabloid press between 1993 and 2006, an average of just under one per week between 1993 and 2006. There were 54 mentions in the press in 1995, the year in which equalisation was legislated for. This was a significant event to change the age at which women received their State Pension that had existed since 1940. This was news worthy, particularly to those that it affected. Further media coverage occurred around the Pension Acts 2007, 2011 and 2014.</p> answering member printed Baroness Buscombe question first answered 25/03/2019 13:57:39 answering member 3349 label Biography information for Baroness Buscombe
tabling member	4564 label Biography information for Lord Bird

1047553

registered interest
date	23/01/2019
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	2
legislature	25277 pref label House of Lords
question text	To ask Her Majesty's Government what plans they have to revise the state pension age arrangements for women born in the 1950s who are adversely affected by (1) the Pensions Act 1995, and (2) the Pensions Act 2011.
tabling member printed	Lord Allen of Kensington
uin	HL13046
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 04/02/2019 answer text <p>This matter has been comprehensively debated on many occasions in Parliament. The Government has no plans to revisit the policy on women’s State Pension age and does not intend to make further concessions. The changes in the 2011 Act occurred following a public Call for Evidence and extensive debates in Parliament. A concession limiting the increase in State Pension age under the 2011 Act in any individual case to 18 months, relative to the 1995 Act timetable, has already been made during the passage Act (at the cost of £1.1 billion).</p> answering member printed Baroness Buscombe question first answered 04/02/2019 14:39:42 answering member 3349 label Biography information for Baroness Buscombe
tabling member	4304 label Biography information for Lord Allen of Kensington

1047554

registered interest
date	23/01/2019
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	2
legislature	25277 pref label House of Lords
question text	To ask Her Majesty's Government what plans they have to introduce transitional state pension arrangements for women born in the 1950s who are adversely affected by the change of the state pension age introduced in (1) the Pensions Act 1995, and (2) the Pensions Act 2011.
tabling member printed	Lord Allen of Kensington
uin	HL13047
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 29/01/2019 answer text <p>This matter has been comprehensively debated on many occasions in Parliament. The Government will not be making changes to its policy on State Pension age for women born in the 1950s.</p><p> </p><p>The Government has already introduced transitional arrangements, costing £1.1 billion. This concession reduced the proposed increase in State Pension age for over 450,000 men and women, and means that no woman will see her pension age change by more than 18 months, relative to the original 1995 Act timetable.</p><p> </p><p>The Government will not be making any further concessions in addition to those arrangements already made for women affected by the acceleration of increases in State Pension age.</p> answering member printed Baroness Buscombe question first answered 29/01/2019 13:04:13 answering member 3349 label Biography information for Baroness Buscombe
tabling member	4304 label Biography information for Lord Allen of Kensington