Question follow-through · 4379
Housing Benefit and Pension Credit: Married People
To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions, what assessment her Department has made of the potential impact of the requirement that both members of a couple must have reached State Pension age in order to be eligible for Pension Credit and pensio
About this written question
A written question asks a government minister for information in writing. Parliament publishes the question and any answer.
- Answering body
- Department for Work and Pensions
- Tabled
- 29 May 2026
- Target answer date
- 2 Jun 2026
- Answer
- 10 Jun 2026 · 12 calendar days after tabling
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Recorded timeline
29 May 2026
Question tabled
To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions, what assessment her Department has made of the potential impact of the requirement that both members of a couple must have reached State Pension age in order to be eligible for Pension Credit and pensio
2 Jun 2026
Target answer date
Date supplied by the official written-questions record.
10 Jun 2026
Answer published
Since 15 May 2019 both members of a couple need to have reached State Pension age to be eligible for Pension Credit or pension-age Housing Benefit. Benefit support for couples where only one partner has reached State Pension age is provided through Univer...
Official data retrieved 28 Sept 2026.
Later records
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