Written Question·Home Office·UIN 46708

Pensions: Widowed People

Tabled: 22 April 2025
Answered: 25 April 2025
Named Day

Question

Valerie Vaz

LabourWalsall and Bloxwich

To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, what her policy is on police (a) widows, (b) widowers and (c) surviving partners losing deceased spouse pensions if they (i) remarry and (ii) cohabit.

Answer

Dame Diana Johnson
The 2015 police pension scheme is the scheme currently open to serving police officers. This scheme provides life-long survivor benefits for spouses, civil partners and unmarried partners, including those who remarry or cohabit after losing a spouse. The ...

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