Question follow-through · 51432
Pension Credit: Rural Areas
To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions, what steps she has taken to increase awareness of the availability of Pension Credit in rural areas.
About this written question
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- Answering body
- Department for Work and Pensions
- Tabled
- 12 May 2025
- Target answer date
- 14 May 2025
- Answer
- 20 May 2025 · 8 calendar days after tabling
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Recorded timeline
12 May 2025
Question tabled
To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions, what steps she has taken to increase awareness of the availability of Pension Credit in rural areas.
14 May 2025
Target answer date
Date supplied by the official written-questions record.
20 May 2025
Answer published
The Government wants all pensioners to get the support to which they are rightly entitled. That is why we ran the biggest ever Pension Credit take-up campaign across the whole of Great Britain. This included adverts on television; radio (including Greates...
Official data retrieved 28 Sept 2026.
Later records
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