State Retirement Pensions: Females

(asked on 24th January 2023) - View Source

Question to the Department for Work and Pensions:

To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions, how many women in (a) St Helens and (b) Merseyside are claiming a state pension.


Answered by
Laura Trott Portrait
Laura Trott
Chief Secretary to the Treasury
This question was answered on 31st January 2023

In the quarter ending May 2022 the State Pension caseload for women in the St. Helen’s Local Authority was 19,161.

In the quarter ending May 2022 the State Pension caseload for women in Merseyside was 140,772.

The table below shows the State Pension caseload for women in the Local Authorities of Merseyside in the quarter ending May 2022.

Local Authorities of Merseyside

Number of Females

Knowsley

13,576

Liverpool

37,976

Sefton

33,531

St. Helens

19,161

Wirral

36,528

Total Merseyside

140,772

Source: DWP benefits statistics: November 2022 - GOV.UK (www.gov.uk)

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