Pension Credit: Take-up
Commons · Question 2892 · Tabled 30 Aug 2024 · Department for Work and Pensions · Official record
Answered 5 Sep 2024
Question
Asked by Mary Glindon
To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions, with reference to page 9 of the policy paper entitled Fixing the foundations: Public spending audit 2024-25, published on 29 July 2024, what estimate her Department made of the level of uptake of Pensio
Answer
Answered by Emma Reynolds, 5 Sep 2024
The estimate included within Fixing the Foundations assumed a 5 percentage point increase in the take-up of Pension Credit during 2024/25 as a behavioural response to the new link between Winter Fuel Payment entitlement and receipt of Pension Credit. The ...