Written Question·Department for Work and Pensions·UIN 9892

Pension Credit and Winter Fuel Payment

Tabled: 17 October 2024

Answered: 28 October 2024

Question

Patrick Spencer

Independent — Central Suffolk and North Ipswich

To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions, pursuant to the Answer of 12 September 2024 to question 4377 on Pension Credit, what progress her Department has made contacting pensioner households that are in receipt of Housing Benefit; and if she w

Answer

Emma Reynolds

We will be writing shortly to the approximately 120,000 pensioners we have identified who are in receipt of Housing Benefit and who may also be eligible for, but not currently claiming, Pension Credit. As a result of the Winter Fuel Payment changes announ...

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