Question follow-through · 19835
Workplace Pensions: Universal Credit
To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions, whether entitlement to a defined benefit occupational pension affects entitlement to Universal Credit if that pension is not drawn.
About this written question
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- Answering body
- Department for Work and Pensions
- Tabled
- 12 Dec 2024
- Target answer date
- 17 Dec 2024
- Answer
- 17 Dec 2024 · 5 calendar days after tabling
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Recorded timeline
12 Dec 2024
Question tabled
To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions, whether entitlement to a defined benefit occupational pension affects entitlement to Universal Credit if that pension is not drawn.
17 Dec 2024
Target answer date
Date supplied by the official written-questions record.
17 Dec 2024
Answer published
It has been a long-standing policy of successive governments to encourage people to save for their retirement. Universal Credit is a means-tested benefit and takes occupational and personal pensions into account when the customer receives that income unde...
Official data retrieved 27 Sept 2026.
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