Question to the Department for Work and Pensions:

To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions, whether an assessment has been made of the potential merits of allowing State Pension claimants to choose whether to be paid monthly or four-weekly.

Successive Governments, of different political persuasions, have created a State Pension system that does not provide for monthly payments by law.

A customer can request a change to weekly or bi-weekly payments if they wish, at any point after the initial claim and award payment is made.