| Heading: |
Social Security Benefits: Older People |
| Question ID: |
1786116 |
| UIN: |
HL5888 |
| House: |
Lords |
| Date tabled: |
2025-03-18 |
| Asking Member ID: |
1388 |
| Asking Member display name: |
Lord Dodds of Duncairn
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| Asking Member handle: |
nigeldoddsdup
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| Asking Member Twitter reference: |
@nigeldoddsdup
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| Member interest: |
false |
| Question text: |
To ask His Majesty's Government what steps they are taking to ensure that older people can access all the benefits and allowances to which they are entitled. |
| 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: |
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 Government wants all pensioners to get the support to which they are rightly entitled. That is why we have been running the biggest ever Pension Credit take-up campaign. We know there are low-income pensioners who aren’t claiming Pension Credit, which... |
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| Answering body ID: |
29 |
| Answering body name: |
Department for Work and Pensions |
| Tweeted: |
true |