War Widows: Pensions

(asked on 22nd February 2022) - View Source

Question to the Ministry of Defence:

To ask the Secretary of State for Defence, what progress his Department has made in relation to war widows pensions since the Minister of State at his Department stated on 10 December 2020 that his Department was examining alternative methods to mitigate the impact on war widows who remarried or cohabited before the introduction of the pensions-for-life changes in 2015.


Answered by
Leo Docherty Portrait
Leo Docherty
Minister of State (Ministry of Defence) (Minister for the Armed Forces)
This question was answered on 25th February 2022

As previously stated by my Rt. hon Friend the Defence Secretary in the House, the Ministry of Defence is examining alternative methods to see whether we can mitigate the impact of these changes, and we have been in regular discussion with the War Widows Association on the matter.

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