Written Question·Department for Work and Pensions·UIN 95317

Financial Assistance Scheme and Pension Protection Fund: Index Linking

Tabled: 27 November 2025

Answered: 9 December 2025

Question

Neil Duncan-Jordan

To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions, what measures the Government will take to ensure that members of the FAS and PPF with serious health conditions or limited life expectancy are not disadvantaged under the proposals for CPI-linked increa

Answer

Torsten Bell

The Government has tabled an amendment which provides that compensation payments from the Pension Protection Fund (PPF) and Financial Assistance Scheme (FAS) on pensions built up before April 1997 will now be linked to CPI-inflation (capped at 2.5%) and a...

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