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Written Question
Pension Credit: Refugees
Tuesday 24th May 2022

Asked by: Julie Marson (Conservative - Hertford and Stortford)

Question to the Department for Work and Pensions:

To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions, how many people who have arrived in the UK from Ukraine under relocation schemes have been awarded Pension Credit.

Answered by Guy Opperman - Parliamentary Under-Secretary (Department for Transport)

As of the 18 May 2022, we had received 1,374 claims to Pension Credit from people who have arrived in Great Britain from Ukraine under the relocation schemes. Of these, 1,012 have been awarded Pension Credit and the other 362 claims are being processed.