Written Question·Cabinet Office·UIN 48524

Royal Mail: Workplace Pensions

Tabled: 28 April 2025

Answered: 8 May 2025

Question

Daisy Cooper

To ask the Minister for the Cabinet Office, pursuant to the Answer of 10 March to Question 34653 on Royal Mail: Workplace Pensions, whether any of the 906 tax free lump sum overpayments in 2024 related to retirement in previous years.

Answer

Georgia Gould

Whilst all of the 906 overpayments happened in 2024, the impacted members retired across a number of years. Of the 906 cases, 163 retired in 2024, 597 in 2023; 5 in 2022), 3 in 2021, 4 in 2020, 2 in 2019, and 8 in 2018. The remaining 124 cases retired bef...

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