Member

A crucial part of my regret Motion is that the changes rely on take-up rates for pension credit. Around 1 million eligible pensioners do not claim it. The Motion in my name stresses the need to identify and deal with low take-up—I have a feeling that the Minister would agree with that. DWP has made calculations of achieving an increase in take-up but, even assuming its optimism is justified, that will still leave us with about 700,000 eligible pensioners not getting pension credit, and thus with the double whammy of not getting winter fuel payments.