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The Pensions Bill will introduce a new flat rate pension based on individual contributions during a person's working life.
Current rules allow spouses who have not paid their own National Insurance contributions to claim a "married person's allowance" of up to £66 per week based on their husband or wife's history of NI contributions.
It's not about their nationality, it's about whether they have put into the British system”
Steve Webb

Pensions Minister
Earlier, in an interview with the Daily Telegraph, Mr Webb highlighted that some of those claiming a married person's allowance had never been to the UK, and this was unfair.

He later defended the fact the government had focused on people living abroad who are married to British citizens - even though the policy will affect people in this country too.

The minister said he had focused on that because the number of women in the UK claiming a pension based on their husband's record is falling steadily, while the number overseas is rising.

"We've got this rather odd situation where more and more of these pensions based on a spouse's record are people who may never have put anything at all into the system in the UK.

"It's not about their nationality, it's about whether they have put into the British system," he told BBC Radio 4's World at One.

He said of more than 200,000 pensions paid outside the UK, more than half of them were to people who had "never put a penny" into the British system.

New state pension Begins April 2016 Worth £144 a week at current prices Flat rate
35 years of National Insurance contributions needed for full amount
Not means tested
Mr Webb said rules would now apply equally abroad and in the UK.