Question follow-through · 5504

Pensioners: Income

To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions, how many pensioners have an annual income of between £11,383 and £20,000.

answeredDepartment for Work and Pensions

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Answering body: Department for Work and Pensions
Tabled: 11 Sept 2024
Target answer date: 7 Oct 2024
Answer: 11 Oct 2024 · 30 calendar days after tabling

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Recorded timeline

11 Sept 2024
Question tabled
To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions, how many pensioners have an annual income of between £11,383 and £20,000.
7 Oct 2024
Target answer date
Date supplied by the official written-questions record.
11 Oct 2024
Answer published
We estimate that the number of pensioner units with an annual income of between £11,383 and £20,000 is approximately 2.3 million. This number has been rounded to the nearest 100,000. This estimate is based on Pensioners’ Incomes data derived from the Fami...

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