Question follow-through · 20509
Pension Credit
To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions, whether her Department has taken steps to work with Portsmouth City Council to help increase pension credit take-up.
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- Answering body
- Department for Work and Pensions
- Tabled
- 16 Dec 2024
- Target answer date
- 18 Dec 2024
- Answer
- 20 Dec 2024 · 4 calendar days after tabling
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Recorded timeline
16 Dec 2024
Question tabled
To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions, whether her Department has taken steps to work with Portsmouth City Council to help increase pension credit take-up.
18 Dec 2024
Target answer date
Date supplied by the official written-questions record.
20 Dec 2024
Answer published
As part of our nationwide Pension Credit campaign, the Department has engaged with all councils in Great Britain, including Portsmouth City Council, via the regular LA Welfare Direct bulletins. The LA Welfare Direct 8/2024 bulletin in August featured a ‘c...
Official data retrieved 27 Sept 2026.
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