Pension Credit

(asked on 14th April 2023) - View Source

Question to the Department for Work and Pensions:

To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions, how many eligible pensioners have applied for Pension Credit since the Government launched its awareness campaign to increase uptake in April 2022.


Answered by
Laura Trott Portrait
Laura Trott
Shadow Secretary of State for Education
This question was answered on 24th April 2023

There have been 271,851 Pension Credit applications submitted from April 2022 to March 2023. DWP does not hold data that show the proportion of customers who are eligible.

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