Administration of Estates: State Retirement Pensions

(asked on 17th March 2026) - View Source

Question to the Department for Work and Pensions:

To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions, pursuant to the Answer of 16 March 2026 to Question 114815 on Administration of Estates: Correspondence, what proportion of reviews of the state pension record of the deceased were completed within (a) 15 days where there was a surviving spouse or civil partner of a customer over the State Pension age, (b) 20 days where there was no surviving spouse or civil partner of a customer over the State Pension age and (c) over 8 weeks where the customer was over the State Pension age in each of the last three years.


Answered by
Andrew Western Portrait
Andrew Western
Parliamentary Under-Secretary (Department for Work and Pensions)
This question was answered on 16th April 2026

The information requested is not readily available and to provide it would incur disproportionate cost.

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