Work and Pensions written question – answered at on 14 February 2013.
To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions what estimate he has made of the (a) annual amount of unclaimed pension credit and (b) number of pensioners failing to claim pension credit.
The most recent estimates of take-up cover the period 2009-10. Figures for the number of pensioners entitled to but not receiving pension credit in Great Britain in 2009-10 are presented in the following table:
Range of entitled non-recipients (%) | Caseload take-up ranges (%) | Unclaimed expenditure (£ million) | Expenditure take-up ranges (%) | |
Caseload and expenditure take-up for pension credit, Great Britain, 2009-10 | 1,210 : 1,580 | 62 : 68 | 1,940 : 2,800 | 73 : 80 |
The ‘Income Related Benefits: Estimates of Take-up’ report covers Great Britain for the financial year 2009-10. It provides caseload and expenditure estimates of take-up for income support and employment and support allowance (income-related), pension credit, housing benefit (including local housing allowance), council tax benefit and jobseeker's allowance (income-based). The latest release updates the statistics previously released on
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