| Heading: |
Pensioners: Income |
| Question ID: |
1729578 |
| UIN: |
HL1011 |
| House: |
Lords |
| Date tabled: |
2024-09-12 |
| 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 how many pensioners in the UK have annual incomes below £15,000, and of those how many are in receipt of pension credit. |
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false |
| Date of holding answer: |
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| Date answered: |
2024-09-26 |
| 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: |
For financial year 2022/23, we estimate that the number of pensioner units with gross annual income below £15,000 is approximately 1.6 million. Of those, we estimate 0.3 million are in receipt of Pension Credit. This estimate is based on Pensioners’ Incom... |
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| Answering body ID: |
29 |
| Answering body name: |
Department for Work and Pensions |
| Tweeted: |
true |