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Pension Credit

Volume 486: debated on Monday 12 January 2009

To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions whether restitution payments made to holocaust survivors are disregarded for the purposes of calculating entitlement to pension credit. (244953)

[holding answer 18 December 2008]: Lump sum payments made to compensate those who were slave labourers, forced labourers or suffered personal injuries or property loss during World War II are fully disregarded when calculating entitlement to pension credit.

In addition payments made to parents whose child died during the Second World War are fully disregarded when calculating entitlement to pension credit.

Social security pensions paid by the German or Austrian Government are fully taken into account. However pensions paid under special provisions by the German or Austrian Government to victims of National Socialist persecution are taken into account subject to a £10 disregard when calculating entitlement to pension credit.