Owen Thompson – 2016 Parliamentary Question to the Department for Work and Pensions

The below Parliamentary question was asked by Owen Thompson on 2016-05-26.

To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions, what guidance his Department issues to inform people of state pension age of the implications for their surviving civil partner in the event of their death they are not married; and how many civil partners have been denied a claim to their partner’s pension following a claimant’s death.

Justin Tomlinson

Guidance on the circumstances in which the surviving member of a married couple or civil partnership may be entitled to State Pension based on their late partner’s National Insurance contributions is available on www.gov.uk.

Information on the number of applications for State Pension based on a late partner’s National Insurance contributions which have been disallowed is not available.

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