Pension Credit and Winter Fuel Payment
Commons · Question 9892 · Tabled 17 Oct 2024 · Department for Work and Pensions · Official record
Answered 28 Oct 2024
Question
Asked by Patrick Spencer
To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions, pursuant to the Answer of 12 September 2024 to question 4377 on Pension Credit, what progress her Department has made contacting pensioner households that are in receipt of Housing Benefit; and if she w
Answer
Answered by Emma Reynolds, 28 Oct 2024
We will be writing shortly to the approximately 120,000 pensioners we have identified who are in receipt of Housing Benefit and who may also be eligible for, but not currently claiming, Pension Credit. As a result of the Winter Fuel Payment changes announ...