Written Question·Department for Work and Pensions·UIN 21728

State Retirement Pensions: Women

Tabled: 3 January 2025

Answered: 8 January 2025

Named Day

Question

Steve Darling

To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions, if she will make an assessment of the potential impact of State Pension age changes on the six sample cases in the Parliamentary and Health Service Ombudsman's report entitled Women’s State Pension age:

Answer

Emma Reynolds

The six sample complainants were impacted by State Pension age changes introduced by both the Pensions Act 1995 and the Pensions Act 2011.The Ombudsman did not investigate the decisions to increase the State Pension age for women in 1995, or to accelerate...

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