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Instruct DWP to stop referring to State Retirement Pension as a Benefit!

Submitted on Monday 28th February 2022

Rejected on Friday 4th March 2022

Current status: Rejected

Rejection code: no-action (see below for details)

Petition Action

Instruct DWP to stop referring to State Retirement Pension as a Benefit!

Petition Details

Any reference to State Pension to be called exactly that!
Nowhere should the State Pension be called a BENEFIT!

Additional Information

The State Pension is paid as a result of workers paying in to the pension scheme all through their working life. Benefits are payments given to people in need for a whole variety of reasons!
State Pension is NOT a Benefit!


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This petition was rejected

The Government e-Petitions Team gave the following reason:

People become eligible for the state pension by paying National Insurance or accruing National Insurance credit, but the state pension is a state benefit and not a pension scheme underpinned by a pension fund.

Other benefits, such as new-style Employment Support Allowance, also have eligibility conditions relating to National Insurance contributions, but this does not mean they are not a state benefit.

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