State Retirement Pensions: Females

(asked on 16th November 2020) - View Source

Question to the Department for Work and Pensions:

To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions, what estimate her Department has made of the number of women who reached state pension age on 6 April 2016, received a Married Woman’s Pension Rate based on their husband’s National Insurance contributions but subsequently divorced and failed to receive an uplift to a full basic state pension.


Answered by
Guy Opperman Portrait
Guy Opperman
Parliamentary Under-Secretary (Department for Transport)
This question was answered on 23rd November 2020

There are no women who meet the criteria.

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