Question follow-through · 31624
State Retirement Pensions: Uprating
To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions, what assessment she has made of the potential merits of uprating the 25 pence age addition for those over 80 years old and in receipt of the Basic State Pension.
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- Answering body
- Department for Work and Pensions
- Tabled
- 13 Feb 2025
- Target answer date
- 24 Feb 2025
- Answer
- 24 Feb 2025 · 11 calendar days after tabling
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Recorded timeline
13 Feb 2025
Question tabled
To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions, what assessment she has made of the potential merits of uprating the 25 pence age addition for those over 80 years old and in receipt of the Basic State Pension.
24 Feb 2025
Target answer date
Date supplied by the official written-questions record.
24 Feb 2025
Answer published
No assessment has been made of the potential merits of uprating the 25 pence Age Addition by this Government. The 25 pence a week Age Addition is part of the old State Pension, for those who reached State Pension age before 6 April 2016. It is paid with t...
Official data retrieved 28 Sept 2026.
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