Question follow-through · 95319

Financial Assistance Scheme and Pension Protection Fund: Compensation

To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions, if he will consult with representatives of older FAS and PPF members to explore alternative approaches to compensating people without pension indexation.

answeredDepartment for Work and Pensions

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Answering body
Department for Work and Pensions
Tabled
27 Nov 2025
Target answer date
1 Dec 2025
Answer
9 Dec 2025 · 12 calendar days after tabling

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Recorded timeline

  1. 27 Nov 2025

    Question tabled

    To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions, if he will consult with representatives of older FAS and PPF members to explore alternative approaches to compensating people without pension indexation.

  2. 1 Dec 2025

    Target answer date

    Date supplied by the official written-questions record.

  3. 9 Dec 2025

    Answer published

    The Government has tabled an amendment which provides that compensation payments from the Pension Protection Fund (PPF) and Financial Assistance Scheme (FAS) on pensions built up before April 1997 will now be linked to CPI-inflation (capped at 2.5%) and a...

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Official data retrieved 28 Sept 2026.

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