questionText: To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions, if she will make an estimate of the cost to the public purse of pension payments made to deceased recipients in each of the last ten years.
answerText: Due to data archiving in accordance with GDPR, we can only provide data from the last five financial years.   Direct Payments made into an account after the death of a customer represent only around 0.1% of total annual expenditure on pensions. Although t...
heading: State Retirement Pensions: Death