State Pension records

[Olde Crone]

Probably a silly question, but is there any suggestion that State Pension records may one day be released?

OC

[Kit]

No question is silly, but I can't give you an answer. Would be nice to have but if they are like Australian records, I doubt it.

[Phoenix]

Income tax records were always considered too personal to keep. I imagine that the same is true for pension records. Were any to be kept, it would probably only be a 1% representative sample.

[Olde Crone]

Thankyou both. As I feared. What a valuable resource though.

OC

[Phoenix]

I have my grandfather's tax assessment from the 1940s. He won the pools - about £2,000 - in that period. He seems only to have been taxed on some interest, and I imagine that neither before nor since did he ever have enough to pay tax.

Some of his ancestors worked in the dockyards, and their pension records show how much pension they got, when they first got it and when they died, but not personal details like addresses: I suppose they hobbled down the road to collect it each week.

[maggie_4_7]

Well if the 100 year rule was in place or is it 70 years? State pension started in 1909 so perhaps only up to 1923 or 1953 (which I think is quite late). Personally I don't think they keep the records, once you die they are destroyed and only the start and end details would be kept if that.

[Olde Crone]

The start date would do me nicely, Maggie! But you are right, they aren't going to hang on to dead records for decades.

OC

[kiterunner]

If you look in the TNA Catalogue under the reference PIN you will see what they have.

[Olde Crone]

Thankyou Kate.

OC