Question follow-through · 46729
Pension Credit: Applications
To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions, how many and what proportion of Pension Credit applications that were received in the period between 1 October 2024 and 31 December 2024 were ineligible.
About this written question
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- Answering body
- Department for Work and Pensions
- Tabled
- 22 Apr 2025
- Target answer date
- 24 Apr 2025
- Answer
- 29 Apr 2025 · 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
22 Apr 2025
Question tabled
To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions, how many and what proportion of Pension Credit applications that were received in the period between 1 October 2024 and 31 December 2024 were ineligible.
24 Apr 2025
Target answer date
Date supplied by the official written-questions record.
29 Apr 2025
Answer published
On 27 February 2025 we published Pension Credit applications and award statistics. This publication provides application volumes up to 23 February 2025. This also includes information on Pension Credit claims that have been cleared but not awarded benefit...
Official data retrieved 28 Sept 2026.
Later records
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