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Workplace Pensions: Index Linking

Commons · Question 65819 · Tabled 8 Jul 2025 · Department for Work and Pensions · Official record

Answered 15 Jul 2025

Question

Asked by Rupa Huq

To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions, if she will consider making provision for mandatory index-linked payments in pre-1997 defined benefit pension schemes.

Answer

Answered by Torsten Bell, 15 Jul 2025

Members of these pension schemes are understandably concerned at seeing inflation erode the value of their retirement income.Most schemes do pay some pre-1997 indexation, because of scheme rules or as a discretionary benefit. Analysis published last year ...