State Pension: Equalisation

Lord Wallace of Tankerness Excerpts

Monday 23rd November 2015 Lords Chamber

[Baroness Altmann]

My Lords, I have also been checking up on this point. I am assured by the department that any woman who had asked for a state pension statement since 1995 would have known what her pension age had been changed to under the Act. Given the uncertainties around the amounts of state pension that any woman could receive under the very complex system that we have at the moment, if a woman had planned her retirement on the basis of that, she would surely have got a pension statement and known about her state pension age change.

[Lord Wallace of Tankerness (LD)]

Given that the noble Baroness has done work on this, how many women have actually applied for pension statements since 1995?

[Baroness Altmann]

I do not have those figures, but I can try to find out for the noble and learned Lord and write to him.