§ Ms CorstonTo ask the Secretary of State for Social Security (1) how many men with wives entitled to category B retirement pensions deferred their retirement in each year since 1988; what was the average amount of their basic retirement pension without the inclusion of increments; and what was the average amount after the addition of such increments;
(2) how many married women entitled to category B retirement pensions have not received increments to those pensions although their husbands have deferred retirement and earned increments to their own retirement pensions; what are their estimated numbers in each year since 1988; and what is the average amount of additional pension received in those years by their husbands as a consequence of deferring retirement.
§ Mr. HagueThe information requested is not available and could be obtained only at disproportionate cost.
§ Ms CorstonTo ask the Secretary of State for Social Security if he will make a statement on the circumstances in which, following the decision of the Social Security Commissioner in 1992 (CP/64/1988), married women entitled to a category B retirement pension will be entitled to increments to that pension when their husbands defer retirement beyond their 65th birthday.
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Project title Contractor Project cost (£) Start date Due end date Contributions Agency Customer Satisfaction Survey 1993 British Market Research Bureau International 151,000 June 1993 March 1994 Incomes and Living Standards of the Elderly in a Comparative Perspective Social Policy Research Unit University of York 79,000 November 1992 December 1993 Benefit Agency National Customer Survey 1992 Public Attitude Surveys Ltd. 187,000 April 1992 August 1993 Pilot study of Ethnicity and the Income Support Claiming Procedure Commission for Racial Equality 5,000 October 1992 April 1994 Evaluation of Disability Working Allowance Policy Studies Institute 265,000 February 1993 December 1995 Invalidity Benefit Surveys Social and Community Planning Research 240,000 August 1991 July 1993 General Practitioners and Invalidity Benefit Social and Community Planning Research 31,000 October 1992 July 1993 Lung Cancer Risk in Pottery Workers London Chest Hospital/Centre for Occupational Health, University of Manchester 51,000 October 1992 November 1993 Statutory Sick Pay Centre for Research in Social Policy, University of Loughborough 104,000 June 1992 July 1993 Simplified Appeals Submissions Policy Studies Institute 46,000 November 1992 July 1993 Management of Information Resources Policy Studies Institute 79,000 February 1992 July 1993 Research into Hard-to-Place Residents of Resettlement Units: Phase II University of Newcastle 47,000 October 1990 July 1993 Health Care Needs of and Services for Resettlement Unit Customers Policy Studies Institute 50,000 September 1992 July 1993 The Effects of Benefit on Housing Decisions Centre for Housing Policy, University of York 67,000 November 1992 October 1993 Direct Payments from Benefit Social Policy Research Unit, University of York 128,000 June 1992 February 1994 Effects of Changes in Circumstances Social Policy Research Unit, University of York 210,000 June 1992 February 1994 International Comparisons of Housing Benefit Centre for Housing Policy, University of York 11,000 February 1993 July 1993 Family Credit Follow Up Policy Studies Institute 71,000 November 1992 December 1993
§ Mr. HagueA married woman can earn increments to her category B retirement pension when her husband defers his category A retirement pension beyond his 65th birthday provided she is not, at the same time, receiving one of a specified list of "excluding" benefits and her husband is not receiving an increase of such a benefit for her. On 12 June 1992 the Court of Appeal upheld an earlier decision of the social security commissioner that graduated retirement benefit (GRB) was not an excluded benefit. Therefore the receipt by a married woman of GRB did not prevent her earning increments. Arrangements have been made to adjust pension rates and pay arrears in affected cases. The regulations were changed on 5 August 1992 and from that date GRB is an excluding benefit.