Oral Question·Department for Work and Pensions
“What steps she is taking to increase uptake of Pension Credit in winter 2024-25.”
Tabled: 5 November 2024Answered: 11 November 2024
Asked by
Tonia Antoniazzi
Labour — Gower
Answering Minister
the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions
Answer from Hansard
The Parliamentary Secretary, His Majesty's Treasury (Emma Reynolds)
We have launched the next phase of our pension credit campaign on radio, TV and print media, and the Government have written to 120,000 pensioners on housing benefit who may be eligible but are not currently claiming pension credit. After less than five months in government, we are bringing forward the merger of housing benefit and pension credit, which the Conservatives announced 13 years ago but failed to deliver.