Question to the Department for Work and Pensions:
To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions, how many of the pre-2008 female state pension recipients who had been divorced have been identified as being in receipt of the incorrect state pension entitlement; and how many of those recipients are now receiving the correct state pension.
Married women, whose husband became entitled to his State Pension before 17 March 2008, are required, as set out in Section 1 of the Social Security Administration Act 1992, to make a claim to get Category BL State Pension.
All State Pension recipients who become divorced should inform DWP of this change to check whether their State Pension position is affected. This has been the position with successive governments. We remind people to do this in the information included with annual uprating letters and there is also information on GOV.UK.