Speech in Commons Chamber - Mon 21 Mar 2022
Cost of Living Increases: Pensioners
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Speech in Commons Chamber - Mon 21 Mar 2022
Cost of Living Increases: Pensioners
"When I was little, I grew up next door to a wonderful couple called Marg and Ray. Marg was like a grandma to me. Sometimes when Mum was busy with my younger sister, she used to send me with a box of toys through the hole in the fence to …..."Emma Hardy - View Speech
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Written Question
Friday 18th March 2022
Asked by:
Emma Hardy (Labour - Kingston upon Hull West and Haltemprice)
Question
to the Department for Work and Pensions:
To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions, whether she plans to increase benefits rates in line with inflation from April 2022.
Answered by David Rutley
The Secretary of State undertakes an annual review of benefits and pensions based on the Consumer Prices Index (CPI), which measures inflation in the year to September.
Written Question
Thursday 17th March 2022
Asked by:
Emma Hardy (Labour - Kingston upon Hull West and Haltemprice)
Question
to the Department for Work and Pensions:
To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions, whether she has made an assessment of the potential merits of maintaining the state pension triple lock for the year 2022-23; and if she will make a statement.
Answered by Guy Opperman
The Government is committed to applying the Triple Lock from 2023/24, for the remainder of Parliament. The decision in 2021 was by reason of statistical anomaly. In 2020 the Government raised State Pension by 2.5%.
Parliament has voted for State Pensions to increase by the Consumer Price Index. This has been the case under successive governments of all Political Parties since the 1970s.
From April, the full yearly amount of the basic State Pension will be around £720 more in 2022/23 than if it had been up-rated by prices since 2010. That’s a rise of over £2,300 in cash terms.
Speech in Westminster Hall - Tue 01 Mar 2022
Pensions Guidance and Advice
"The hon. Gentleman is making an excellent speech. Further to his point, the need for clear and impartial guidance becomes even more important given the current levels of fraud. We are seeing people defrauded from their pensions and given very poor advice, which means they lose out on their savings, …..."Emma Hardy - View Speech
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Speech in Westminster Hall - Tue 01 Mar 2022
Pensions Guidance and Advice
"The Treasury Committee got a letter on 16 February from the Financial Conduct Authority about the trials and how they have been designed. I wonder if the hon. Member shares my disappointment that it said,
“We are still in a design phase and have not yet determined all these details. …..."Emma Hardy - View Speech
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Speech in Westminster Hall - Tue 01 Mar 2022
Pensions Guidance and Advice
"It is a pleasure to serve under your chairmanship, Ms Bardell. I will not repeat the excellent points made by the hon. Member for Amber Valley (Nigel Mills), but I echo many of them. The need for good pensions advice is real and pressing. Nobody jumps out of bed in …..."Emma Hardy - View Speech
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Speech in Westminster Hall - Tue 01 Mar 2022
Pensions Guidance and Advice
"My hon. Friend is absolutely right. The message that we would like to get to those who are making savings is: “Do not do it by not contributing to a pension, because you will need that money in future.” That is why we need important, impartial advice.
I am not …..."Emma Hardy - View Speech
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Speech in Westminster Hall - Tue 01 Mar 2022
Pensions Guidance and Advice
"My hon. Friend is making an excellent speech. I think everyone would accept that the sophistication of the fraudsters is developing day by day, and that both legislation, and police and the Government action, is playing catch up—as it always will. Therefore, there is an urgency to deal with this; …..."Emma Hardy - View Speech
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Written Question
Tuesday 25th January 2022
Asked by:
Emma Hardy (Labour - Kingston upon Hull West and Haltemprice)
Question
to the Department for Work and Pensions:
To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions, what steps her Department is taking to tackle the backlog in work capability assessments.
Answered by Chloe Smith
Ensuring claimants are assessed at the earliest opportunity and reducing customer processing times are a priority for the department. As part of the Covid-19 response we introduced telephone and video assessments alongside existing paper-based assessments.
We resumed face to face Work Capability Assessments (WCA) in May 2021, initially for claimants we were unable to assess by telephone. We continue to work with the assessment provider, Centre for Health and Disability Assessments (CHDA), to maximise the number of WCAs completed.
We have assessed or scheduled for a face to face assessment over 99% of customers who were unable to be assessed remotely, or who were assessed by telephone but for whom a recommendation could not be made.