Question to the Department for Work and Pensions:

To ask His Majesty's Government what proportion of Pension Credit applicants were deemed eligible for Pension Credit in the 2023–24 financial year.

We are unable to provide information on how many claims made for Pension Credit in the financial year of 2023 were subsequently awarded. This is because the Department currently reports awards numbers by the week the claim was cleared, rather than the week the claim was made.

The total number of Pension Credit awards made in the 2023–24 financial year was 133,500.

Please note, the data shown is unpublished management information, collected and intended for internal departmental use and has not been quality assured to National Statistics or Official Statistics publication standard.