Winter Fuel Payments: Databases

(asked on 19th May 2021) - View Source
Questioner
Alistair Carmichael Portrait
Alistair Carmichael
(Liberal Democrat - Orkney and Shetland)

Question to the Department for Work and Pensions:

To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions, how many delayed Winter Fuel Payments were caused by incorrect address transfers in the new Seasonal Payment System.

Answered by
Guy Opperman Portrait
Guy Opperman
Parliamentary Under-Secretary (Department for Transport)
This question was answered on 26th May 2021

No payments were delayed due to data transfer between the systems.

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