Apr. 22 2024
Source Page: (1) A D BLY GROUNDWORKS AND CIVIL ENGINEERING LIMITED (2) CHR TRAVEL LIMITED v THE COMMISSIONERS FOR HIS MAJESTY’S REVENUE AND CUSTOMS [2024] UKUT 00104 (TCC)Found: contractual arrangements with directors and other key employees relating to an Unfunded Unapproved Retirement
Apr. 22 2024
Source Page: 2020 Valuation - Teachers’ Pension Scheme (England and Wales)Found: However, adjustments applied to member pensions on early and late retirement mean that allowing for
Apr. 22 2024
Source Page: 2020 Valuation - Teachers’ Pension Scheme (England and Wales)Found: State Pension ageAs legislated for in the Pensions Act 1995, Pensions Act 2007, Pensions Act 2011 and
Apr. 22 2024
Source Page: 2020 Valuation - Teachers’ Pension Scheme (England and Wales)Found: This report is addressed totheSecretary of State for Education.
Mentions:
1: Christina Rees (LAB - Neath) Such reforms would help to bridge the gap between the current state of things and how we might wish them - Speech Link
2: Margaret Greenwood (Lab - Wirral West) That is a completely unacceptable state of affairs. - Speech Link
3: Mims Davies (Con - Mid Sussex) pension replaces income in retirement. - Speech Link
Mentions:
1: None We will address state pensions in the next group, but we do indeed have a list of those countries that - Speech Link
2: None pension, state pension credit, additional pensions, state maternity allowance, bereavement payment, - Speech Link
3: Viscount Younger of Leckie (Con - Excepted Hereditary) The figure for the fraud aspect—or it could be error—linked to state pensions is £100 million. - Speech Link
Asked by: Vicky Foxcroft (Labour - Lewisham, Deptford)
Question to the Department for Work and Pensions:
To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions, if he will make an assessment of the potential merits of awarding the full Carer's Allowance to unpaid carers that are in receipt of the state pension.
Answered by Mims Davies - Minister of State (Department for Work and Pensions)
Although there is no upper age limit to claiming Carer’s Allowance, it cannot normally be paid with the State Pension. It has been a long held feature of the UK’s benefit system, under successive Governments, that where someone is entitled to two benefits for the same contingency, then whilst there may be entitlement to both benefits, only one will be paid to avoid duplication for the same need. Although entitlement to State Pension and Carer’s Allowance arise in different circumstances they are nevertheless designed for the same contingency – as an income replacement. Carer’s Allowance replaces income where the carer has given up the opportunity of full-time employment in order to care for a severely disabled person, while State Pension replaces income in retirement. For this reason, social security rules operate to prevent them being paid together, to avoid duplicate provision for the same need.
However, if a carer’s State Pension is less than Carer's Allowance, State Pension is paid and topped up with Carer's Allowance to the basic weekly rate of Carer's Allowance which is currently £81.90.
Where Carer’s Allowance cannot be paid, the person will keep underlying entitlement to the benefit. This gives access to the additional amount for carers in Pension Credit of £45.60 a week and potentially other means-tested support. Around 100,000 people are receiving the Carer Premium with their Pension Credit. And even if a pensioner’s income is above the limit for Pension Credit, they may still be able to receive Housing Benefit.
Asked by: Baroness Ritchie of Downpatrick (Labour - Life peer)
Question to the Department for Work and Pensions:
To ask His Majesty's Government when they will respond to the report from the Parliamentary and Health Service Ombudsman Women’s State Pension age: our findings on injustice and associated issues laid before Parliament on 21 March.
Answered by Viscount Younger of Leckie - Parliamentary Under-Secretary (Department for Work and Pensions)
In laying the report before Parliament at the end of March, the Ombudsman has brought matters to the attention of this House, and a further update to the House will be provided once the report's findings have been fully considered.
Apr. 19 2024
Source Page: 2020 Valuation - Northern Ireland Civil Service Pension SchemeFound: Classic Plus pensions represent less than 5% of the total pensions coming into payment over the inter
Apr. 19 2024
Source Page: 2020 Valuation - Northern Ireland Civil Service Pension SchemeFound: Lower costs Retirement agesIn line with CS GB salary band 2.