Universal Credit: Pension Credit

(asked on 15th June 2023) - View Source

Question to the Department for Work and Pensions:

To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions, whether he has made an assessment of the potential merits of excluding any legacy benefit claimant due to qualify for Pension Credit before April 2025 from having to migrate to Universal Credit; and if he will make a statement.


Answered by
Guy Opperman Portrait
Guy Opperman
Parliamentary Under-Secretary (Department for Transport)
This question was answered on 21st June 2023

We are currently excluding anyone within 6 months of State Pension Age from the Managed Migration process to reduce the number of benefit changes households need to make within a short period of time.

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