Social Security Benefits
(asked on 9th September 2021) - View Source
Question to the Department for Work and Pensions:
To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions, how many social security claimants have migrated payment of their claims from a Post Office Card Account (POca) to a bank account since the closure of the POca scheme has been announced.
This question was answered on 14th September 2021
The Department does not hold information on the number of claimants who have migrated from a Post Office card account to a standard account.
The number of active Post Office card accounts has reduced from 1 million in August 2019 to less than 350k in August 2021.