Select committee: Work and Pensions Committee
Conclusion 20
2nd Report - Transition to State Pension Age
Published 11 Jul 2026
Addressed to Department for Work and Pensions
Work and Pensions Committee Transition to State Pension age All items in this report Report on parliament.uk ↗ Inquiry on parliament.uk ↗
Conclusion (the committee's words)
We acknowledge that this proposal would not go far enough to improve health outcomes for people who have had to leave work due to ill-health or caring responsibilities in their mid-60s. We should not be in this position. If the government had acted on the recommendation in our 2025 Pensioner Poverty report to update the impact assessment, this would have focused minds earlier on what was needed. (Conclusion, Paragraph 92)
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).