Question follow-through · 19135
State Retirement Pensions: Death
To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions, if she will make an estimate of the cost to the public purse of pension payments made to deceased recipients in each of the last ten years.
About this written question
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- Answering body
- Department for Work and Pensions
- Tabled
- 10 Dec 2024
- Target answer date
- 12 Dec 2024
- Answer
- 20 Dec 2024 · 10 calendar days after tabling
Elapsed calendar days describe the record timeline, not whether Parliament considers an answer on time.
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Recorded timeline
10 Dec 2024
Question tabled
To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions, if she will make an estimate of the cost to the public purse of pension payments made to deceased recipients in each of the last ten years.
12 Dec 2024
Target answer date
Date supplied by the official written-questions record.
20 Dec 2024
Answer published
Due to data archiving in accordance with GDPR, we can only provide data from the last five financial years. Direct Payments made into an account after the death of a customer represent only around 0.1% of total annual expenditure on pensions. Although t...
Official data retrieved 27 Sept 2026.
Later records
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