State Retirement Pensions: Females

(asked on 13th April 2018) - View Source

Question to the Department for Work and Pensions:

To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions, what assessment she has made of the effect of the increase in the state pension age for women on the entitlement to pension credit of men who are (a) married to and (b) live with those women.


Answered by
Guy Opperman Portrait
Guy Opperman
Parliamentary Under-Secretary (Department for Transport)
This question was answered on 18th April 2018

The minimum qualifying age for Pension Credit is linked to women’s State Pension age for both men and women. Until November 2018, when men’s and women’s State Pension ages will be equalised, a man may qualify for Pension Credit before his own State Pension age.

In couple cases, the income and capital of both members is taken into account. Accordingly, in a couple case where the man is the claimant, the availability of the female partner’s State Pension may be a factor in determining entitlement, depending on what other income they have.

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