Pension Credit

(asked on 9th October 2020) - View Source
Questioner
Anne McLaughlin Portrait
Anne McLaughlin
(Scottish National Party - Glasgow North East)

Question to the Department for Work and Pensions:

To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions, how many pension credit claims there were in each of the last 12 months for which data is available; and what the outcome was of those pension credit claims over that period.

Answered by
Guy Opperman Portrait
Guy Opperman
Parliamentary Under-Secretary (Department for Transport)
This question was answered on 14th October 2020

The number of Pension Credit claims received in the last 12 months is shown in table 1 below:

Table 1

Oct-19

Nov-19

Dec-19

Jan-20

Feb-20

Mar-20

10,645

8,318

6,615

8,540

9,574

12,557

Apr-20

May-20

Jun-20

Jul-20

Aug-20

Sep-20

9,567

8,613

9,004

17,087

14,865

15,054

Extract taken from Weekly Pensions Performance Report on 28th September 2020

Source: Weekly Data from CAM (Customer Account Manager)

The figure includes both successful and unsuccessful Pension Credit claims.

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