| Heading: |
Winter Fuel Payment: Pension Credit |
| Question ID: |
1726467 |
| UIN: |
HL556 |
| House: |
Lords |
| Date tabled: |
2024-09-02 |
| Asking Member ID: |
4533 |
| Asking Member display name: |
Baroness Altmann
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| Asking Member handle: |
rosaltmann
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| Asking Member Twitter reference: |
@rosaltmann
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| Member interest: |
false |
| Question text: |
To ask His Majesty's Government what assessment they have made of the impact of removing Winter Fuel Payments, without further warning, on (1) pensioners whose incomes are a small amount above the Pension Credit threshold, and (2) those who are entitled t |
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false |
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| Date answered: |
2024-09-18 |
| Date answer corrected: |
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| Is holding answer: |
false |
| Is correcting answer: |
false |
| Answering Member ID: |
4147 |
| Answering Member display name: |
Baroness Sherlock
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| Answering Member handle: |
MaeveSherlock
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| Answering Member Twitter reference: |
@MaeveSherlock
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| Answer text: |
The Department continues to maximise opportunities to promote Pension Credit and to raise awareness of its wider benefits and to encourage pensioners to apply. The department uses a range of creative media including TV, press, radio and social media to bo... |
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| Answering body ID: |
29 |
| Answering body name: |
Department for Work and Pensions |
| Tweeted: |
true |