“What discussions he has had with Cabinet colleagues on the potential revocation of EU workers’ rights regulations.”
Asked by
Mohammad Yasin
Answering Minister
the Secretary of State for Business, Energy and Industrial Strategy
Answer from Hansard
The Parliamentary Under-Secretary of State for Work and Pensions (Emma Reynolds)
Under the last Conservative Government, an estimated 880,000 of the poorest pensioners eligible for pension credit were not claiming it. We have launched the biggest ever pension credit awareness campaign and written to 120,000 pensioners on housing benefit, urging them to apply. As a result, claims for pension credit have more than doubled, and those who receive pension credit will also receive winter fuel payments and other related benefits.