Question follow-through · 22214
State Retirement Pensions: Payments
To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions, if she will make an assessment of the potential merits of paying the State Pension in monthly instalments.
About this written question
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- Answering body
- Department for Work and Pensions
- Tabled
- 6 Jan 2025
- Target answer date
- 8 Jan 2025
- Answer
- 9 Jan 2025 · 3 calendar days after tabling
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Recorded timeline
6 Jan 2025
Question tabled
To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions, if she will make an assessment of the potential merits of paying the State Pension in monthly instalments.
8 Jan 2025
Target answer date
Date supplied by the official written-questions record.
9 Jan 2025
Answer published
State Pension payments are usually paid four weekly in arrears. People have the option to be paid weekly or in some circumstances bi-weekly. There are no plans to introduce alternative payment arrangements.
Official data retrieved 28 Sept 2026.
Later records
Possible follow-up questions
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