Work and Pensions

Torsten Bell Excerpts
Monday 10th February 2025

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Written Corrections
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What assessment she has made of the potential impact of means-testing the winter fuel payment on levels of pensioner poverty.

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This Government have run the biggest ever take-up campaign on pension credit, which is worth around £400 on average to those eligible.

[Official Report, 3 February 2025; Vol. 761, c. 534.]

Written correction submitted by the Under-Secretary of State for Work and Pensions, the hon. Member for Swansea West (Torsten Bell):

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This Government have run the biggest ever take-up campaign on pension credit, which is worth around £4,200 a year on average to those eligible.