Police: Pensions

(asked on 2nd May 2019) - View Source

Question to the Home Office:

To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, what assessment he has made of the effect of the 2015 changes to Police Pension Regulations on the financial wellbeing of police widows and widowers.


Answered by
Nick Hurd Portrait
Nick Hurd
This question was answered on 9th May 2019

Police pensions were reformed in 2015 in line with the Government’s wider review of public service pensions. The 2015 Police Pension Scheme provides valuable benefits for police officers, including survivor benefits paid for life.


The Government also made changes to the existing Police Pension Regulations 1987 in relation to survivor benefits, with effect from April 2015. The Government accepted that there were compelling arguments to allow surviving spouses or civil partners, where a police officer has died as a result of an injury on duty, to receive survivor benefits for life.

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