Written Question·Department for Work and Pensions·UIN 43599
Pensioners: Housing Benefit
Tabled: 2 April 2025
Answered: 8 April 2025
Named DayQuestion
Dr Simon Opher
Labour — Stroud
To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions, how many pensioners in receipt of Housing Benefit are not claiming Pension Credit.
Answer
Sir Stephen TimmsUsing the latest published benefit combinations statistics from Stat-Xplore, out of the 1.24m benefit claimants of state pension age in Great Britain receiving Housing Benefit in August 2024, 448,500 were not in receipt of Pension Credit. A DWP benefit cl...
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