Departmental Publication (Policy paper)
Department for Levelling Up, Housing & Communities

Mar. 25 2024

Source Page: Financial distress in local authorities: government response to the Select Committee report
Document: Financial distress in local authorities: government response to the Select Committee report (print version) (PDF)

Found: That is why the Secretary of State for the Department of Work and Pensions has committed to reviewing

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Departmental Publication (Policy paper)
Department for Levelling Up, Housing & Communities

Mar. 25 2024

Source Page: Financial distress in local authorities: government response to the Select Committee report
Document: Financial distress in local authorities: government response to the Select Committee report (PDF)

Found: That is why the Secretary of State for the Department of Work and Pensions has committed to reviewing

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Deposited Papers

Mar. 22 2024

Source Page: Government response to the Quinquennial Review of the Armed Forces Compensation Scheme 2022-23. 58p.
Document: Quinquennial.pdf (PDF)

Found: Calculating Awards 10 Seeking Parity 10 Inequitable limitations 11 Burden of Proof; Lump -sum Uprating

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Departmental Publication (Statistics)
Department for Work and Pensions

Mar. 21 2024

Source Page: Family Resources Survey Transformation: integrating administrative data into the FRS
Document: Family Resources Survey Transformation: integrating administrative data into the FRS (PDF)

Found: c) HMRC RTI P AYE data for employment and occupational pensions HMRC have provided us with an initial

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Select Committee

Large Print Report - Benefit levels in the UK

Report Mar. 21 2024

Committee: Work and Pensions Committee (Department: Department for Work and Pensions)

Found: As we will discuss in Chapter 4, uprating decisions and rules compound over time, so looking at uprating

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Select Committee

Second Report - Benefit levels in the UK

Report Mar. 21 2024

Committee: Work and Pensions Committee (Department: Department for Work and Pensions)

Found: uprating procedure 40 The impact of consistent annual uprating 42 se of CPI 43 Thresholds, allowances

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Written Statements
Households Below Average Income: Statistics Release - Thu 21 Mar 2024
Department for Work and Pensions

Mentions:
1: Mel Stride (Con - Central Devon) The Department for Work and Pensions has today published its annual statistics on incomes and living - Speech Link

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Written Question

State Retirement Pensions: Women

Thursday 21st March 2024

Asked by: Stephen Morgan (Labour - Portsmouth South)

Question to the Department for Work and Pensions:

To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions, what steps he is taking to support women affected by changes to the state pension age with the cost of living.

Answered by Paul Maynard - Parliamentary Under-Secretary (Department for Work and Pensions)

The Government is committed to ensuring that older people can live with the dignity and respect they deserve, and the State Pension is the foundation of state support in retirement. Last year the State Pension saw its biggest ever cash rise, increasing by 10.1%. From April, the basic and new State Pensions will increase by 8.5%, in line with the Triple Lock.

The Government is delivering a comprehensive package of support to help those aged 50 and over to remain in and return to work. We are also committed to providing a financial safety net for those who need it, including when they near or reach retirement, through the welfare benefits system. Support is available to those who are unable to work or are on a low income but are not eligible for pensioner benefits because of their age.

In addition, the government has provided support from 2022-23 to 2023-2024 to help households with the cost of living totalling £96 billion. We are providing further support for 24/25, including uprating working age benefits by 6.7%, raising the National Living Wage and uplifting Local Housing Allowance to the 30th percentile of local rents which will benefit 1.6 million private renters by, on average, £800 a year.

The government is also providing an additional £500m to enable the extension of the Household Support Fund, including funding for the Devolved Administrations through the Barnett formula to be spent at their discretion. This means that Local Authorities in England will receive an additional £421m to support those in need locally through the Household Support Fund. This will enable further targeted support for people who require assistance to get back to a stable financial position as inflation continues to fall.

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Written Question

Pensions: Financial Assistance Scheme

Thursday 21st March 2024

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, if he will make an estimate of the cost of uprating pensions payable through the Financial Assistance Scheme to the same level as those payable through the Pension Protection Fund.

Answered by Paul Maynard - Parliamentary Under-Secretary (Department for Work and Pensions)

The indexation rules for the Pension Protection Fund and the Financial Assistance Scheme are the same. Payments based on benefits accrued after April 1997 are increased in line with the Consumer Price Index, capped at 2.5 per cent. There is no award of increases on payments based on benefits accrued before April 1997.

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