State Retirement Pensions: Uprating
Lords · Question HL10770 · Tabled 6 Oct 2025 · Department for Work and Pensions · Official record
Answered 20 Oct 2025
Question
Asked by Lord Davies of Brixton
To ask His Majesty's Government, given the figures for the consumer prices index and national average earnings indices, and the percentage increases in those indices that are published by the Office for National Statistics, how each of those figures are u
Answer
Answered by Baroness Sherlock, 20 Oct 2025
The Social Security Administration Act 1992 requires the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions to review State Pension and benefit rates each year to see if they have retained their value in relation to the general level of prices or earnings. Where th...