Question to the Department for Work and Pensions:
To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions, what targets his Department has for processing online applications for the state pension.
The Department for Work & Pensions (DWP) does not maintain average processing times relating to online State Pension applications and does not have a target to process online State Pension claims. Customers can claim their State Pension up to four months in advance of reaching pension age by making a clerical, telephone or online application. The Department measures processing times for all claims and monitors the percentage of applications processed by claim date.