Pensioners: Coronavirus
(asked on 24th March 2021) - View Source
Question to the Department for Work and Pensions:
To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions, what discussions she has had with Cabinet colleagues on the financial effect of the covid-19 outbreak on pensioners in (a) Coventry North East constituency, (b) Coventry, (c) the West Midlands and (d) England.
This question was answered on 13th April 2021
Government Ministers have continuously worked together to co-ordinate the economic response to the pandemic all across the UK.
The Social Security (Up-rating of Benefits) Act 2020 ensured that pensioner incomes will increase in 2021/22. In 2021/22 the full yearly basic State Pension will be over £2,050 a year higher, in cash terms, than in 2010.