State Retirement Pensions

Work and Pensions

Written answers and statements, 4 November 2009

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Brian Jenkins (Tamworth, Labour)

To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions what the change to the number of pensioners eligible for a full state pension was following the reduction in the number of qualifying years required.

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Angela Eagle (Minister of State (Pensions and the Ageing Society), Department for Work and Pensions; Wallasey, Labour)

The reduction to 30 in the number of qualifying years required for entitlement to a full basic state pension will only take effect for people reaching state pension age from 6 April 2010. As a result of this and other changes in the 2007 pension reforms we estimate that an extra 60,000 people reaching state pension age in 2010-11 will be entitled to a full basic state pension.

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