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Pension Credit: Take-up

Commons · Question 6276 · Tabled 4 Oct 2024 · Department for Work and Pensions · Official record

Answered 15 Oct 2024

Question

Asked by Wendy Morton

To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions, pursuant to her Answer of 11 September 2024 to Question 2913 on Pension Credit: Take-up, how many full-time equivalent (a) staff, (b) new staff and (c) staff reallocated from other roles in her Departme

Answer

Answered by Emma Reynolds, 15 Oct 2024

Prior to the Winter Fuel announcement, Retirement Services Directorate (RSD) had 352 Full Time Equivalent (FTE) staff deployed on Pension Credit claims. Since the announcement, a deployment plan has been agreed to deploy an additional 537 FTE into RSD to ...