Question follow-through · 4775
Pension Credit
To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions, if he will make an assessment of the potential merits of (a) simplifying and (b) automating the process to apply for Pension Credit.
About this written question
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- Answering body
- Department for Work and Pensions
- Tabled
- 9 Sept 2024
- Target answer date
- 11 Sept 2024
- Answer
- 16 Sept 2024 · 7 calendar days after tabling
Elapsed calendar days describe the record timeline, not whether Parliament considers an answer on time.
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Recorded timeline
9 Sept 2024
Question tabled
To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions, if he will make an assessment of the potential merits of (a) simplifying and (b) automating the process to apply for Pension Credit.
11 Sept 2024
Target answer date
Date supplied by the official written-questions record.
16 Sept 2024
Answer published
The Department continues to assess the Pension Credit service. This led to the introduction of the online claim process, providing customers with a convenient alternative claim route, alongside the existing telephony and paper application methods. As the ...
Official data retrieved 27 Sept 2026.
Later records
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