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State Retirement Pensions: Payments

Question for Department for Work and Pensions

UIN 22214, tabled on 6 January 2025

To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions, if she will make an assessment of the potential merits of paying the State Pension in monthly instalments.

Answered on

9 January 2025

State Pension payments are usually paid four weekly in arrears. People have the option to be paid weekly or in some circumstances bi-weekly. There are no plans to introduce alternative payment arrangements.