Select committee: Work and Pensions Committee
Recommendation 19
2nd Report - Transition to State Pension Age
Published 11 Jul 2026
Addressed to Department for Work and Pensions
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Recommendation (the committee's words)
We are disappointed that the Minister seemed disinclined to consider specific additional support to pre-pensioners. We are also disappointed at the lack of evidence-based policy-making that has been driving this and policy making more generally in the DWP. We recommend that the government think again and, as a minimum, consult on the proposal for an uplift in the level of UC in the year before State Pension age with the aim of introducing additional support by the end of 2026. As part of this, it should: explain how it thinks conditionality rules should apply in the year before SPA; and produce its own assessment of the impact and overall costs. (Recommendation, Paragraph 91)
From: Work and Pensions Committee, 2nd Report - Transition to State Pension Age (HC 76), 11 July 2026
Government response
The government responded to the whole report on 22 October 2026 (deadline 11 September 2026).