State Retirement Pensions: Coronavirus
(asked on 13th July 2020) - View Source
Question to the Department for Work and Pensions:
To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions, if she will make an assessment of the potential merits of enabling people over 64 years old to claim the state pension during the covid-19 outbreak in order to limit the use of public transport among that age group to reach their place of work.
This question was answered on 21st July 2020
The Secretary of State will make no such assessment.
We have no plans to reverse changes to State Pension age. Changes to State Pension age were made over a series of Acts by successive governments from 1995 onwards, following public consultations and extensive debates in both Houses of Parliament.