Correspondence Oct. 25 2023
Committee: Work and Pensions Committee (Department: Department for Work and Pensions)Found: Correspondence to the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions and the Chancellor of the Exchequer relating
Mentions:
1: Viscount Younger of Leckie (Con - Excepted Hereditary) It means that most state pensions will gain value relative to that increase. - Speech Link
2: Lord Davies of Brixton (Lab - Life peer) First, a lot of the coverage of this increase said that state pensions would be increased by 8.5%. - Speech Link
3: Baroness Sherlock (Lab - Life peer) pension credit and the higher rate of widows’ and widowers’ pensions in industrial death benefit. - Speech Link
Mentions:
1: Paul Maynard (Con - Blackpool North and Cleveleys) For the information of the House, this order covers state pensions. - Speech Link
2: Debbie Abrahams (Lab - Oldham East and Saddleworth) I start by welcoming the uprating order, including the uprating of the local housing allowance, which - Speech Link
3: Debbie Abrahams (Lab - Oldham East and Saddleworth) The Department for Work and Pensions has the largest spending across Government. - Speech Link
Jul. 19 2023
Source Page: Estimated cost of uprating UK State Pensions in frozen rate countries: 2024 to 2028Found: Estimated cost of uprating UK State Pensions in frozen rate countries: 2024 to 2028
Mentions:
1: Mims Davies (Con - Mid Sussex) valuable opportunity to raise awareness of the schemes and the support for Department for Work and Pensions - Speech Link
2: Vicky Foxcroft (Lab - Lewisham, Deptford) the third time that I have spoken to the regulations on behalf of the shadow Department for Work and Pensions - Speech Link
3: Mims Davies (Con - Mid Sussex) is not considered as part of the main social security benefits uprating order. - Speech Link
Mentions:
1: None Partnership” that highlights the stark contrast in engagement between the UK and Canada on the frozen pensions - Speech Link
2: None State pensions are, however, up-rated overseas where there is a legal requirement to do so, such as a - Speech Link
3: None Neither of these provide for state pension uprating in Canada and the UK Government has no plans to revisit - Speech Link
4: None Uprating overseas state pensions to the rate payable in the UK would cost approximately £900 million - Speech Link
Mentions:
1: Alison McGovern (Lab - Wirral South) Further to the debate that we have just had, we also need to end the speculation about uprating. - Speech Link
2: David Linden (SNP - Glasgow East) When the Minister was making reference to a Netflix series earlier, I did think that the pensions uprating - Speech Link
3: Paul Maynard (Con - Blackpool North and Cleveleys) There has been a bit of speculation about uprating, but does that start from those on the Government - Speech Link
Asked by: Baroness Bennett of Manor Castle (Green Party - Life peer)
Question to the Department for Work and Pensions:
To ask His Majesty's Government, further to the Department for Work and Pension's Estimated costs of uprating State Pension in frozen rate countries: 2024 to 2028, published on 19 July, whether there is any precedent where, when pensions were once frozen but started being uprated as a result of an international agreement, the pensions concerned were raised to the level they would have been had they never been frozen.
Answered by Viscount Younger of Leckie - Parliamentary Under-Secretary (Department for Work and Pensions)
There is no standard model for international agreements on social security, which are agreed on a case-by-case basis between countries or groups of countries. The UK's international agreements on social security which include State Pension provisions are included here:
Mentions:
1: Mel Stride (Con - Central Devon) 2024-25 and come into effect on 8 April 2024.I am pleased to announce that the basic and new state pensions - Speech Link
Asked by: Wendy Chamberlain (Liberal Democrat - North East Fife)
Question to the Department for Work and Pensions:
To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions, what assessment he has made of the potential impact of the Autumn Statement 2023 on levels of poverty among benefit claimants.
Answered by Mims Davies - Minister of State (Department for Work and Pensions)
We are providing support to households to help with the high cost of living worth £104 billion over 2022-23 to 2024-25. This includes, subject to Parliamentary approval, raising working age benefits by 6.7% and State pensions by 8.5% from April next year on top of this year’s 10.1% uprating for all State pensions and benefits.
To support low-income households with increasing rent costs, the government will also raise Local Housing Allowance rates to the 30th percentile of local market rents for private renters from April 2024. This will benefit 1.6m low-income households by on average £800 a year in 24/25.
We are also, from April, increasing the National Living Wage for workers aged 21 years and over by 9.8% to £11.44 representing an increase of over £1,800 to the gross annual earnings of a full-time worker on the National Living Wage.
We estimate that in 2024/5 around 20 million families will benefit from the uprating of DWP and HMRC benefits in Great Britain. This will include around 8 million pensioner and around 11 million working age families and around 1 million mixed age couples.
In 2024/25, around 5.5 million Universal Credit families are forecast to benefit from uprating with an average annual gain for a family on Universal Credit estimated to be £470 (equivalent to an increase of around £39 per month), however gains will vary depending on the elements received by different family types. An assessment of the benefit uprating policy has been published here.
On average, households in the poorest income deciles are gaining the most in cash terms and as a percentage of net income in 2023-24 as a result of government policies announced at Autumn Statement 2022. This Government has overseen significant falls in absolute poverty since 2009/10. In 2021/22 there were 1.7 million fewer people in absolute poverty after housing costs than in 2009/10, including 400,000 fewer children and 1 million fewer working age adults.