Department for Work and Pensions written question – answered at on 11 October 2024.
Neil Duncan-Jordan
Labour, Poole
To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions, for the number of pensioners with an annual income of between £15,000 and £20,000.
Emma Reynolds
The Parliamentary Secretary, HM Treasury, The Parliamentary Under-Secretary of State for Work and Pensions
We estimate that the number of pensioner units with an annual income of between £15,000 and £20,000 is approximately 1.5 million. This number has been rounded to the nearest 100,000.
This estimate is based on Pensioners’ Incomes data derived from the Family Resources Survey and covers private households in the United Kingdom.
A pensioner unit can be a single pensioner over State Pension age, a pensioner couple where one member is over State Pension age, or a pensioner couple where both members are over State Pension age.
Yes4 people think so
No2 people think not
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The Family Resources Survey collects information on the incomes and circumstances of private households in the United Kingdom (or Great Britain before 2002-03).
Information is provided on household characteristics, income and state support receipt, tenure and housing costs, assets and savings, carers, and couppation and employment. http://www.dwp.gov.uk/asd/frs/
Though designed with the interests of the DWP in mind, the data is deposited at the Data Archive at Essex University: http://www.data-archive.ac.uk/
Background information on the dataset and copies of the FRS questionnaire can be accessed through the Question Bank at Surry University: http://qb.soc.surrey.ac.uk/surveys/frs/frsintro.htm
