State Retirement Pensions
The question
To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions, how many pensioners receive the full state pension as their only income.
Answered by Torsten Bell
The Department does not hold readily available information to identify how many pensioners receive the full State Pension as their only income. Information is, however, available from Departmental survey data which shows, in 2023/24, around 1.1m pensioner families in the UK received the State Pension and other state benefits as their only source of income. This information is published in the Pensioner Incomes series.
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