Royal Mail: Workplace Pensions
Commons · Question 48524 · Tabled 28 Apr 2025 · Cabinet Office · Official record
Answered 8 May 2025
Question
Asked by Daisy Cooper
To ask the Minister for the Cabinet Office, pursuant to the Answer of 10 March to Question 34653 on Royal Mail: Workplace Pensions, whether any of the 906 tax free lump sum overpayments in 2024 related to retirement in previous years.
Answer
Answered by Georgia Gould, 8 May 2025
Whilst all of the 906 overpayments happened in 2024, the impacted members retired across a number of years. Of the 906 cases, 163 retired in 2024, 597 in 2023; 5 in 2022), 3 in 2021, 4 in 2020, 2 in 2019, and 8 in 2018. The remaining 124 cases retired bef...