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Pension Credit

Asked by Blake StephensonConservativeDepartment for Work and PensionsTabled Answered 31 March 2025UIN 40816

The question

To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions, with reference to the press notice entitled Nearly fifty thousand extra pensioners receiving vital Pension Credit support following surge in claims processed, published on 27 February 2025, if she will make an estimate of the number of people who were (a) eligible for and (b) not in receipt of Pension Credit on 24 March 2025.

Answered by Torsten Bell

The Department does not have this data for the period up to March 2025.

The latest available Pension Credit take-up statistics cover the financial year 2022 to 2023 and are available at: Income-related benefits: estimates of take-up: financial year ending 2023 - GOV.UK.

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