Written Question·Home Office·UIN 27962

Police: Workplace Pensions

Tabled: 31 January 2025
Answered: 10 February 2025

Question

Liz Jarvis

Liberal DemocratEastleigh

To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, whether she has plans to allow police survivors who (a) remarry and (b) cohabit after losing a spouse to retain their full pension entitlement.

Answer

Dame Diana Johnson
With the introduction of the 2006 police pension scheme on 6 April 2006, all eligible police officers were able to join a pension scheme that provides life-long survivor benefits for spouses, civil partners and unmarried partners, including those who rema...

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