Question to the Department for Work and Pensions:
To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions, what recent estimate she has made of the number of women (a) receiving jobseeker's allowance and (b) in rent arrears as a result of changes to the state pension age.
Equalisation of the State Pension age affects all women born after 6th April 1950. Data on claimants in receipt of jobseekers allowance by age band and gender is available on NOMIS:
The data can be found by accessing the link and clicking ‘Query data’ followed by ‘Jobseeker’s Allowance’ and ‘Jobseeker’s Allowance by age and duration’. The gender and age bands of interest can then be selected and the data accessed by completing the selections desired and clicking ‘Download Data.’
The information requested regarding rent arrears is not readily available and could only be provided at disproportionate cost.