Oral QuestionDepartment for Work and Pensions

What steps her Department is taking to help increase uptake of Pension Credit.

Tabled: 11 March 2025Answered: 17 March 2025

Asked by

Vikki Slade

Liberal DemocratMid Dorset and North Poole

Answering Minister

the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions

Answer from Hansard

The Parliamentary Under-Secretary of State for Work and Pensions (Torsten Bell)

This Government have been running the biggest ever pension credit take-up campaign. In the latest stage, we are now writing to all pensioners who make a new housing benefit claim and who appear to be entitled to pension credit, directly targeting them and encouraging them to apply.