| Heading: |
Pension Credit: South Shropshire |
| Question ID: |
1787363 |
| UIN: |
40361 |
| House: |
Commons |
| Date tabled: |
2025-03-21 |
| Asking Member ID: |
4742 |
| Asking Member display name: |
Stuart Anderson
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| Asking Member handle: |
_AndersonStuart
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| Asking Member Twitter reference: |
@_AndersonStuart
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| Member interest: |
false |
| Question text: |
To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions, what steps she is taking to help expedite Pension Credit claims from South Shropshire constituency. |
| Is named day: |
false |
| Date of holding answer: |
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| Date answered: |
2025-03-31 |
| Date answer corrected: |
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| Is holding answer: |
false |
| Is correcting answer: |
false |
| Answering Member ID: |
5069 |
| Answering Member display name: |
Torsten Bell
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| Answering Member handle: |
TorstenBell
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| Answering Member Twitter reference: |
@TorstenBell
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| Answer text: |
The Government put in place the biggest ever pension Credit take-up drive. To help ensure it has the capacity to assess all claims within reasonable timeframes, the Department deployed over 500 additional staff. On 27 February 2025 we published Pension Cr... |
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| Answering body ID: |
29 |
| Answering body name: |
Department for Work and Pensions |
| Tweeted: |
true |