| Heading: |
Pension Credit and Winter Fuel Payment |
| Question ID: |
1726164 |
| UIN: |
3440 |
| House: |
Commons |
| Date tabled: |
2024-08-30 |
| Asking Member ID: |
5156 |
| Asking Member display name: |
Jess Asato
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| Asking Member handle: |
jess4lowestoft
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| Asking Member Twitter reference: |
@jess4lowestoft
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| Member interest: |
false |
| Question text: |
To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions, what recent estimate she has made of the number of pensioners not in receipt of Pension Credit living in (a) relative and (b) absolute poverty; and what estimate she has made of the number of additional |
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false |
| Date of holding answer: |
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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: |
4077 |
| Answering Member display name: |
Emma Reynolds
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| Answering Member handle: |
emmaforwycombe
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| Answering Member Twitter reference: |
@emmaforwycombe
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| Answer text: |
For the latest year 2022/23, 1.9 million pensioners were in relative poverty after housing costs (AHC). Of these, 1.6 million pensioners were not in receipt of Pension Credit.For the latest year 2022/23, 1.4 million pensioners were in absolute poverty AHC... |
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| Answering body ID: |
29 |
| Answering body name: |
Department for Work and Pensions |
| Tweeted: |
true |