Pension Credit
(asked on 10th April 2019) - View Source
Question to the Department for Work and Pensions:
To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions, what estimate she has made of the (a) amount of unclaimed pension credit and (b) average amount of unclaimed pension credit per eligible person in each year for which data is available.
The table below shows estimates for the (a) amount of unclaimed Pension credit and (b) average amount of unclaimed pension credit per household in each year for which data is available.
| Total amount of unclaimed pension credit | Average (mean) weekly amount of unclaimed pension credit | Average (median) weekly amount of unclaimed pension credit |
2012/13 | £3.1bn | £41 | £22 |
2013/14 | £2.9bn | £41 | £23 |
2014/15 | £2.8bn | £42 | £24 |
2015/16 | £2.7bn | £42 | £25 |
2016/17 | £3.1bn | £49 | £24 |
Source: Income related benefits: estimates of take-up 2016 to 2017
Please note that figures in the publication reflect average amounts of unclaimed Pension Credit per household instead of per person. This is because data from the Family Resources Survey, a survey assessing households, is used to produce the figures in the publication.