Police: Workplace Pensions — Written Question

Question

Luke Taylor

Liberal Democrat — Sutton and Cheam

To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, what her Department has to provide additional financial support for the widows of police officers who completed the majority of their service under the 1987 Pension Scheme even if they have remarried

Answer

Sarah Jones

The 1987 Police Pension Scheme provides survivor benefits to widows, widowers, and civil partners of police officers who die. In line with most public service pension schemes of that era, these benefits cease upon remarriage or cohabitation.With the intro...

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