Senior Citizens: Means-tested Benefits Debate
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Baroness Janke
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(2 years, 6 months ago)
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Baroness Stedman-Scott (Con)
When the benefit uprating comes, based on the September figures for that year, the triple lock will be restored.
Baroness Janke (LD)
My Lords, what has been done to improve the application process for pension credit and make it simpler and more easily accessible to many pensioners, particularly those on their own and older pensioners who may not have easy and quick internet access?
Baroness Stedman-Scott (Con)
The noble Baroness’s question prompts me to go back and have a look at the application process. Perhaps I can come back to her on that. I am not sure that I can answer her other question about the internet, but I will go back and see what we are doing in particular to encourage and help people to claim via that.