Pensioners: Means-tested Benefits

(asked on 25th March 2019) - View Source

Question to the Department for Work and Pensions:

To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions, what the take-up rate has been of each income-based pensioner benefit in each of the last five years for which data are available.


Answered by
Guy Opperman Portrait
Guy Opperman
Parliamentary Under-Secretary (Department for Transport)
This question was answered on 28th March 2019

The latest Official statistics on the take-up of income related benefits relate to 2016/17 and can be found in the ‘Income-related benefits: estimates of take-up in 2016 to 2017’ publication at:

https://www.gov.uk/government/statistics/income-related-benefits-estimates-of-take-up-financial-year-2016-to-2017

Official statistics relating to earlier years can be found at:

https://www.gov.uk/government/collections/income-related-benefits-estimates-of-take-up--2

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