Question follow-through · 4596

State Retirement Pensions: Women

To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions, if she will make an assessment of the potential merits of creating a hardship fund for women affected by the change to the State Pension age.

answeredDepartment for Work and Pensions

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Answering body: Department for Work and Pensions
Tabled: 9 Sept 2024
Target answer date: 11 Sept 2024
Answer: 16 Sept 2024 · 7 calendar days after tabling

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Recorded timeline

9 Sept 2024
Question tabled
To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions, if she will make an assessment of the potential merits of creating a hardship fund for women affected by the change to the State Pension age.
11 Sept 2024
Target answer date
Date supplied by the official written-questions record.
16 Sept 2024
Answer published
The Government believes the best way to support people, including women who have been affected by the change to the State Pension Age is to help them to retrain, return to or progress in work. That is why the Government is reforming employment support to ...

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Official data retrieved 27 Sept 2026.

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