State Retirement Pensions: Undocumented Workers
(asked on 13th October 2025) - View Source
Question to the Department for Work and Pensions:
To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions, whether his Department withholds state pension payments to people convicted of illegal working.
This question was answered on 22nd October 2025
Anyone convicted of a criminal offence and serving a custodial sentence in the UK is not eligible to receive State Pension payments during their imprisonment.
People not in prison but convicted of illegal working, would not be making National Insurance contributions during any period of illegal working, which would be required to build entitlement for the State Pension.