State Retirement Pensions: Undocumented Workers
Commons · Question 81546 · Tabled 13 Oct 2025 · Department for Work and Pensions · Official record
Answered 22 Oct 2025
Question
Asked by Blake Stephenson
To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions, whether his Department withholds state pension payments to people convicted of illegal working.
Answer
Answered by Torsten Bell, 22 Oct 2025
Anyone convicted of a criminal offence and serving a custodial sentence in the UK is not eligible to receive State Pension payments during their imprisonment. People not in prison but convicted of illegal working, would not be making National Insurance co...