Question follow-through · 31507
Pension Credit
To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions, pursuant to the Answer of 11 October 2024 to Question 5385 on Pension Credit, what recent steps she has taken to ensure that funding for additional staffing is reducing pension credit application proces
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- Answering body
- Department for Work and Pensions
- Tabled
- 13 Feb 2025
- Target answer date
- 24 Feb 2025
- Answer
- 25 Feb 2025 · 12 calendar days after tabling
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Recorded timeline
13 Feb 2025
Question tabled
To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions, pursuant to the Answer of 11 October 2024 to Question 5385 on Pension Credit, what recent steps she has taken to ensure that funding for additional staffing is reducing pension credit application proces
24 Feb 2025
Target answer date
Date supplied by the official written-questions record.
25 Feb 2025
Answer published
As referenced in previous responses HL4289 and Question 5385, DWP works to a planned timescale of 50 working days to clear Pension Credit claims. The funding was the first stage followed by securing staffing resource, training those people and enabling le...
Official data retrieved 28 Sept 2026.
Later records
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