Question follow-through · 29561

Pensioners: Income

To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions, if she will make an estimate of the median income for pensioners in the 2024-25 financial year.

answeredDepartment for Work and Pensions

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Answering body: Department for Work and Pensions
Tabled: 6 Feb 2025
Target answer date: 11 Feb 2025
Answer: 11 Feb 2025 · 5 calendar days after tabling

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Recorded timeline

6 Feb 2025
Question tabled
To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions, if she will make an estimate of the median income for pensioners in the 2024-25 financial year.
11 Feb 2025
Target answer date
Date supplied by the official written-questions record.
11 Feb 2025
Answer published
The Pensioners’ Incomes statistics contains estimates of the levels, sources and distribution of pensioners’ incomes. This is published by the department annually. The latest data covers financial year ending 2023. In financial year ending 2023, it is est...

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Official data retrieved 28 Sept 2026.

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