Question follow-through · 60713

Disability: Employees' Contributions

To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions, if she will issue guidance on how disabled people can maintain their national insurance contributions needed to qualify for full state pension if (a) their household income is above the Universal Credit

answeredDepartment for Work and Pensions

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Answering body
Department for Work and Pensions
Tabled
17 Jun 2025
Target answer date
20 Jun 2025
Answer
23 Jun 2025 · 6 calendar days after tabling

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Recorded timeline

  1. 17 Jun 2025

    Question tabled

    To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions, if she will issue guidance on how disabled people can maintain their national insurance contributions needed to qualify for full state pension if (a) their household income is above the Universal Credit

  2. 20 Jun 2025

    Target answer date

    Date supplied by the official written-questions record.

  3. 23 Jun 2025

    Answer published

    As part of the Pathways to Work: Reforming Benefits and Support to Get Britain Working Green Paper published in March 2025 we are consulting on establishing a new “Unemployment Insurance” benefit through the reform of contributory working-age benefits. Un...

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Official data retrieved 28 Sept 2026.

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