Question follow-through · 9892
Pension Credit and Winter Fuel Payment
To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions, pursuant to the Answer of 12 September 2024 to question 4377 on Pension Credit, what progress her Department has made contacting pensioner households that are in receipt of Housing Benefit; and if she w
About this written question
A written question asks a government minister for information in writing. Parliament publishes the question and any answer.
- Answering body
- Department for Work and Pensions
- Tabled
- 17 Oct 2024
- Target answer date
- 21 Oct 2024
- Answer
- 28 Oct 2024 · 11 calendar days after tabling
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- Pension Credit: Suffolk · 28 Jan 2025
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Recorded timeline
17 Oct 2024
Question tabled
To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions, pursuant to the Answer of 12 September 2024 to question 4377 on Pension Credit, what progress her Department has made contacting pensioner households that are in receipt of Housing Benefit; and if she w
21 Oct 2024
Target answer date
Date supplied by the official written-questions record.
28 Oct 2024
Answer published
We will be writing shortly to the approximately 120,000 pensioners we have identified who are in receipt of Housing Benefit and who may also be eligible for, but not currently claiming, Pension Credit. As a result of the Winter Fuel Payment changes announ...
Official data retrieved 27 Sept 2026.
Later records
Possible follow-up questions
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Pension Credit: Suffolk
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Children: Terminal Illnesses
4 Dec 2025 · To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions, what discussions he has had with the Secretary of State for Business and Trade on the adequacy of financial support for parents of critically and terminally ill children.