Department for Work and Pensions written question – answered at on 6 September 2024.
Neil Duncan-Jordan
Labour, Poole
To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions, how much pension credit was unclaimed in (a) 2021, (b) 2022 and (c) 2023.
Emma Reynolds
The Parliamentary Secretary, HM Treasury, The Parliamentary Under-Secretary of State for Work and Pensions
The latest available Pension Credit take-up statistics cover the financial year 2021 to 2022 and are available at: Income-related benefits: estimates of take-up: financial year ending 2022 - GOV.UK (www.gov.uk). These statistics were suspended for financial year ending 2021 due to data issues following the coronavirus (COVID-19) pandemic.
In the financial year ending 2022, the estimated amount of unclaimed Pension Credit was £1.72 billion.
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