State Retirement Pensions: Greater Manchester
(asked on 12th June 2019) - View Source
Question to the Department for Work and Pensions:
To ask Her Majesty's Government how many pensioners aged 75 and over receive (1) state pension, and (2) pensioner credit, in each of the ten districts of Greater Manchester.
In November 2018, the number of pensioners aged 75 and over claiming the State Pension and Pension Credit in the Greater Manchester districts can be found in the table below.
Pension Credit and State Pension Recipients by district
| State Pension | Pension Credit |
Bolton | 21,321 | 4,859 |
Bury | 15,189 | 2,790 |
Manchester | 21,524 | 8,290 |
Oldham | 16,374 | 3,746 |
Rochdale | 15,231 | 3,798 |
Salford | 16,157 | 4,255 |
Stockport | 27,258 | 4,239 |
Tameside | 17,049 | 3,790 |
Trafford | 19,359 | 3,006 |
Wigan | 26,354 | 5,416 |