Pensioners: Means-tested Benefits

(asked on 19th June 2019) - View Source

Question to the Department for Work and Pensions:

To ask Her Majesty's Government what percentage of those in receipt of state pensions also receive other means-tested benefits.


Answered by
Baroness Buscombe Portrait
Baroness Buscombe
This question was answered on 27th June 2019

In November 2018, 17 per cent of those in receipt of the State Pension were also in receipt of Pension Credit and / or Housing Benefit.

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