| Heading: |
Armed Forces: Pensions |
| Question ID: |
1761873 |
| UIN: |
28750 |
| House: |
Commons |
| Date tabled: |
2025-02-04 |
| Asking Member ID: |
5186 |
| Asking Member display name: |
Bradley Thomas
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| Asking Member handle: |
BradleyThomasUK
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| Asking Member Twitter reference: |
@BradleyThomasUK
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| Member interest: |
false |
| Question text: |
To ask the Secretary of State for Defence, how many military pensions are unclaimed; and what steps his Department is taking to increase the claimant rate of those pensions. |
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false |
| Date of holding answer: |
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| Date answered: |
2025-02-11 |
| Date answer corrected: |
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| Is holding answer: |
false |
| Is correcting answer: |
false |
| Answering Member ID: |
5235 |
| Answering Member display name: |
Al Carns
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| Answering Member handle: |
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| Answering Member Twitter reference: |
Al Carns
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| Answer text: |
The estimated number of unclaimed pensions as of March 2024, the end of the last financial year, was 14,797. Tables on membership can be found at the following link: https://assets.publishing.service.gov.uk/media/66977e29a3c2a28abb50d0d1/Armed_Forces_Pens... |
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| Answering body ID: |
11 |
| Answering body name: |
Ministry of Defence |
| Tweeted: |
true |