Oral Question·Ministry of Housing, Communities and Local Government
“What steps he is taking to establish the UK Shared Prosperity Fund.”
Tabled: 24 March 2020Answered: 30 March 2020
Asked by
Andrew Bowie
Conservative — West Aberdeenshire and Kincardine
Answering Minister
the Secretary of State for Housing, Communities and Local Government
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.