Written Question·Department for Work and Pensions·UIN 73871

State Retirement Pensions: Married People

Tabled: 1 September 2025

Answered: 4 September 2025

Named Day

Question

Ann Davies

To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions, if she will undertake a review of the impact of changes implemented as part of the Pensions Act 2014 on the ability of widows to inherit a spouse's state pension entitlement.

Answer

Torsten Bell

There are no current plans to carry out such a review. The new State Pension, for people reaching State Pension age from 6 April 2016 onwards, is based on an individual's own National Insurance record. In general, it is not possible, as it was under the o...

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