State Retirement Pensions: Females

(asked on 15th October 2021) - View Source

Question to the Department for Work and Pensions:

To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions, with reference to the report by the Parliamentary and Health Service Ombudsman entitled, ​Women’s State Pension age: our findings on the Department for Work and Pensions’ communication of changes, published on 29 July 2021, what assessment she has made of the implications for her policies of the Ombudsman's findings and potential for compensation for claimants impacted by the changes to women’s State Pension age.


Answered by
Guy Opperman Portrait
Guy Opperman
Parliamentary Under-Secretary (Department for Transport)
This question was answered on 21st October 2021

The Parliamentary and Health Service Ombudsman (PHSO) has not completed his investigation. This a multi staged process and the report published on 20 July 2021 concludes stage-one of the investigation.

It would not be appropriate to comment on the PHSO’s report whilst the investigation is ongoing; and section 7(2) of the Parliamentary Commissioner Act 1967 states that Ombudsman investigations “shall be conducted in private”.

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