Pension Credit

(asked on 9th October 2020) - View Source
Questioner
Anne McLaughlin Portrait
Anne McLaughlin
(Scottish National Party - Glasgow North East)

Question to the Department for Work and Pensions:

To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions, how many pension credit claims there were in each of the last 12 months for which data is available; and what the outcome was of those pension credit claims over that period.

Answered by
Guy Opperman Portrait
Guy Opperman
This question was answered on 14th October 2020

The number of Pension Credit claims received in the last 12 months is shown in table 1 below:

Table 1

Oct-19

Nov-19

Dec-19

Jan-20

Feb-20

Mar-20

10,645

8,318

6,615

8,540

9,574

12,557

Apr-20

May-20

Jun-20

Jul-20

Aug-20

Sep-20

9,567

8,613

9,004

17,087

14,865

15,054

Extract taken from Weekly Pensions Performance Report on 28th September 2020

Source: Weekly Data from CAM (Customer Account Manager)

The figure includes both successful and unsuccessful Pension Credit claims.

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