Question follow-through · 7394
State Retirement Pensions
To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions, what assessment her Department has made of the implications for her policies of the differences in the amounts received by recipients of the old and new State Pension.
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- Answering body
- Department for Work and Pensions
- Tabled
- 4 Oct 2024
- Target answer date
- 8 Oct 2024
- Answer
- 15 Oct 2024 · 11 calendar days after tabling
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Recorded timeline
4 Oct 2024
Question tabled
To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions, what assessment her Department has made of the implications for her policies of the differences in the amounts received by recipients of the old and new State Pension.
8 Oct 2024
Target answer date
Date supplied by the official written-questions record.
15 Oct 2024
Answer published
We are absolutely committed to supporting pensioners and giving them the dignity and security they deserve in retirement.It is not possible to make direct, like for like comparisons between State Pension amounts received under the pre 2016 State Pension s...
Official data retrieved 27 Sept 2026.
Later records
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