PARLIAMENTARY WRITTEN QUESTION
State Retirement Pensions: Widowed People (12 May 2022)

To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions, what estimate her Department has made of the number of men and women who are eligible to inherit a deceased partner's Additional State Pension but who have yet to make a claim to do so.

Asked by:
Karin Smyth (Labour)

No estimation has been made. Under current rules, State Pension recipients who become widowed do not need to make a separate claim to get any inherited additional State Pension they may be entitled to. Similarly, those widowed before State Pension age should receive any inherited additional State Pension they may be entitled to when they claim their State Pension.

Answered by:
Guy Opperman (Conservative)
18 May 2022