questionText: To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions, how many people (a) chose to defer their state pension and (b) claimed an arears payment after 12 months in the most recent 12-month period for which data are available.
answerText: The Department does not know that a person has deferred until they submit a claim for their State Pension. This means it is not possible to identify the total number of people who are deferring at any point in time, the average length of deferral or the n...
heading: State Retirement Pensions