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State Retirement Pensions: Women

Asked by Martin WrigleyLiberal DemocratDepartment for Work and PensionsTabled Answered 21 January 2025UIN 23968

The question

To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions, whether her Department plans to provide a formal response to the Parliamentary and Health Service Ombudsman report entitled Women’s State Pension age: our findings on the Department for Work and Pensions’ communication of changes, published on 19 July 2021.

Answered by Torsten Bell

We provided a formal response to the Ombudsman’s findings on the State Pension age investigation on 17 December 2024. This can be found in the library of both houses and is publicly available on GOV.UK. Government response to Parliamentary and Health Service Ombudsman’s Investigation into Women’s State Pension age communications and associated issues - GOV.UK

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