Written Question·Department for Work and Pensions·UIN 69553

State Retirement Pensions: Veterans

Tabled: 21 July 2025

Answered: 3 September 2025

Question

Helen Maguire

To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions, what estimate her Department has made of the annual cost of uprating State Pensions for armed forces veterans living overseas by inflation in each of the next three financial years; how many armed force

Answer

Torsten Bell

As of the quarter ending November 2024, latest available data show there were around 1.1 million recipients of the GB State Pension living overseas. Source: DWP Stat-Xplore The Department does not hold data identifying armed forces veterans in receipt of ...

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