Written Question·Department for Work and Pensions·UIN 19135
State Retirement Pensions: Death
Tabled: 10 December 2024
Answered: 20 December 2024
Question
Rupert Lowe
Restore Britain — Great Yarmouth
To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions, if she will make an estimate of the cost to the public purse of pension payments made to deceased recipients in each of the last ten years.
Answer
Andrew WesternDue to data archiving in accordance with GDPR, we can only provide data from the last five financial years. Direct Payments made into an account after the death of a customer represent only around 0.1% of total annual expenditure on pensions. Although t...
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