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Housing Benefit and Pension Credit: Age
To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions, what assessment her Department has made of the potential impact on levels of pensioner poverty among mixed-age couples of the requirement that both members of a couple must have reached State Pension ag
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- Answering body
- Department for Work and Pensions
- Tabled
- 12 Feb 2026
- Target answer date
- 23 Feb 2026
- Answer
- 23 Feb 2026 · 11 calendar days after tabling
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Recorded timeline
12 Feb 2026
Question tabled
To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions, what assessment her Department has made of the potential impact on levels of pensioner poverty among mixed-age couples of the requirement that both members of a couple must have reached State Pension ag
23 Feb 2026
Target answer date
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23 Feb 2026
Answer published
Ensuring that individuals can get into, progress and stay in work is important in helping them to continue saving for their own retirement and contribute to the wider economy. The requirement for mixed age couples to seek financial support from the workin...
Official data retrieved 28 Sept 2026.
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