Pension Credit
(asked on 3rd September 2024) - View Source
Question to the Department for Work and Pensions:
To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions, how many people claim Pension Credit.
This question was answered on 11th September 2024
Based on the latest published Pension Credit caseload statistics (sources below), in February 2024 there were 1,359,475 households in Great Britain claiming Pension Credit.
The published Pension Credit figures refer to households, so the number of individuals will be higher (i.e., taking account of households where it is a couple claiming Pension Credit).
Source:
Pension Credit data is published here: Pension Credit – Data from May 2018