Written Question·Department for Work and Pensions·UIN 5582

Pension Credit

Tabled: 12 September 2024
Answered: 9 October 2024
Named Day

Question

Neil Coyle

LabourBermondsey and Old Southwark

To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions, when the threshold for pension credit was last reviewed; and when it is next set for review.

Answer

Emma Reynolds
The rates of Pension Credit were last reviewed in Autumn 2023 as part of the Secretary of State’s annual statutory review of State pension and benefit rates. Following that review, the Pension Credit standard minimum guarantee was increased by 8.5%, in li...

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