Armed Forces: Workplace Pensions
Commons · Question 16660 · Tabled 7 Jul 2026 · Ministry of Defence · Official record
Answered 14 Jul 2026
Question
Asked by Pippa Heylings
To ask the Secretary of State for Defence, whether he has made an assessment of the adequacy of Armed Forces pension scheme provisions which limit survivor pension entitlement for spouses who married former service personnel after they had left service; a
Answer
Answered by Calvin Bailey, 14 Jul 2026
Before 6 April 1978, it was a well-established principle of occupational pension schemes, including those for the Armed Forces, that to be eligible to claim part of the scheme member’s pension upon the member’s death, a widow/er had to be married to the s...