Civil Servants: Pensions

(asked on 22nd January 2016) - View Source

Question to the Cabinet Office:

To ask the Minister for the Cabinet Office, how many unmarried civil servants had a deduction made from their civil service pensions in each of the last 10 years under the scheme to meet the costs of widow and widowers' pensions in the event of some scheme members marrying; and what the total value of those deductions was.


Answered by
Matt Hancock Portrait
Matt Hancock
This question was answered on 28th January 2016

No deduction has been made from Civil Service Pensionsof unmarried civil servants to meet the costs of widow and widowers' pensions in the event of some scheme members marrying.

Information on the date of marriage is not held.

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