Workplace Pensions: Increases
2026-05-13 · Department for Work and Pensions · 1219 · Official question
Question
To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions, whether his Department plans to require pension schemes to provide clearer advance notification to members when established policies on discretionary increases are (a) changed and (b) withdrawn.
Answer
The Government recognises the concerns of members of defined benefit pension schemes whose benefits accrued before 1997 are not subject to indexation.The design of pension benefits, including whether discretionary increases may be awarded and whether empl...