questionText: To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions, what assessment his Department has made of the adequacy of current pension regulations in allowing individuals to nominate (a) cohabiting siblings and (b) other non-spousal family members as beneficiaries of survivor pension benefits; and whether his Department has made an assessment of the potential merits of legislative changes to extend nomination rights to a wider range of long-term cohabiting relationships.
answerText: The rules vary from scheme to scheme, but the majority of schemes will provide some form of survivor benefit for dependants in the event of a member's death. These may be payable to surviving spouses, civil partners or unmarried partners (often with a fin...
heading: Pensions: Cohabitation