Pensioners: Housing Benefit
Commons · Question 43599 · Tabled 2 Apr 2025 · Department for Work and Pensions · Official record
Answered 8 Apr 2025
Question
Asked by Simon Opher
To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions, how many pensioners in receipt of Housing Benefit are not claiming Pension Credit.
Answer
Answered by Sir Stephen Timms, 8 Apr 2025
Using the latest published benefit combinations statistics from Stat-Xplore, out of the 1.24m benefit claimants of state pension age in Great Britain receiving Housing Benefit in August 2024, 448,500 were not in receipt of Pension Credit. A DWP benefit cl...