| Heading: |
Pensioners: Housing Benefit |
| Question ID: |
1791686 |
| UIN: |
43599 |
| House: |
Commons |
| Date tabled: |
2025-04-02 |
| Asking Member ID: |
5030 |
| Asking Member display name: |
Dr Simon Opher
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| Asking Member Twitter reference: |
Dr Simon Opher
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| Member interest: |
false |
| Question text: |
To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions, how many pensioners in receipt of Housing Benefit are not claiming Pension Credit. |
| Is named day: |
true |
| Date of holding answer: |
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| Date answered: |
2025-04-08 |
| Date answer corrected: |
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| Is holding answer: |
false |
| Is correcting answer: |
false |
| Answering Member ID: |
163 |
| Answering Member display name: |
Sir Stephen Timms
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| Answering Member handle: |
stephenctimms
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| Answering Member Twitter reference: |
@stephenctimms
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| Answer text: |
Using 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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| Answering body ID: |
29 |
| Answering body name: |
Department for Work and Pensions |
| Tweeted: |
true |