Written Question·Department for Work and Pensions·UIN 46469

State Retirement Pensions: Payments

Tabled: 17 April 2025
Answered: 29 April 2025

Question

Sarah Gibson

Liberal DemocratChippenham

To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions, whether her Department will commit to a review of the frequency of State Pension payments to better support pensioners in managing their budgets.

Answer

Torsten Bell
The current State Pension payment regime has been in place since 6 April 2010 for those people who reached pensionable age on or after that date.However, to make the opportunity of being paid calendar monthly available, there would need to be significant ...

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