Written Question·Department for Work and Pensions·UIN 17360
Workplace Pensions
Tabled: 2 December 2024
Answered: 10 December 2024
Question
Susan Murray
Liberal Democrat — Mid Dunbartonshire
To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions, if her Department will make an assessment of the potential merits of implementing measures to support pensioners whose defined benefit schemes are underfunded.
Answer
Emma ReynoldsThe UK has a robust and flexible regime for protecting defined benefit (DB) pensions. Sponsoring employers are ultimately responsible for meeting the promised pensions and DB pension schemes are subject to the statutory funding objective which requires th...
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