Question follow-through · 68437
Age Addition
To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions, if she conduct a review of the effectiveness of the Age Addition for pensioners aged 80 and above.
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- Answering body
- Department for Work and Pensions
- Tabled
- 16 Jul 2025
- Target answer date
- 21 Jul 2025
- Answer
- 22 Jul 2025 · 6 calendar days after tabling
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Recorded timeline
16 Jul 2025
Question tabled
To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions, if she conduct a review of the effectiveness of the Age Addition for pensioners aged 80 and above.
21 Jul 2025
Target answer date
Date supplied by the official written-questions record.
22 Jul 2025
Answer published
The Department has not conducted any recent assessments and there are no plans to review the current arrangements. However, a number of Members of Parliament have written to me about the 25 pence Age Addition The 25 pence a week Age Addition is part of th...
Official data retrieved 28 Sept 2026.
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