Social Security Benefits: Pensioners
Commons · Question 60754 · Tabled 17 Jun 2025 · Department for Work and Pensions · Official record
Answered 25 Jun 2025
Question
Asked by Ben Maguire
To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions, whether she has made an assessment of the potential impact of he rule which prevents mixed-age couples from claiming pension-age benefits until the youngest partner reaches State Pension age on the numb
Answer
Answered by Torsten Bell, 25 Jun 2025
The requirement that both members of a couple need to have reached State Pension age to be eligible for Pension Credit or pension-age Housing Benefit was introduced by the previous conservative government from 15 May 2019. Benefit support for couples wher...