Every parliamentary written question tabled by Gregory Campbell this session, with the full answer and department. See how every department answers, or back to the MP page.
Showing 41–49 of 49 · Department for Work and Pensions
What benefits would a successful applicant for Pension Credit potentially be eligible for in addition to the Winter Fuel Payment.
In addition to the Winter Fuel Payment, Pension Credit provides access to a number of other benefits and support including: o help with rent via Housing Benefit;o a Council Tax reduction;o Cold Weather Payments and other help from the Social Fund includin...
What reduction in fraud and error in the benefit system she plans to achieve by the end of 2025.
At Autumn Budget, the OBR updated their forecasts. This shows the impact of the Department’s plans to reduce fraud and error levels across the scorecard period. In addition to this, the Department provides annual updates on the effectiveness of their plan...
Whether recipients who have not been suspected of benefit fraudulent activity will be subject to having their personal bank account details scrutinised.
Fraud and error in the social security system currently costs the taxpayer almost £10 billion a year and, since the pandemic, a total of £35 billion of taxpayers’ money has been incorrectly paid to those not entitled. The DWP is determined to reduce those...
Whether she plans further publicity to inform pensioners of the closing date for applications for Pension Credit.
The Department’s campaign to promote Pension Credit has been running across Great Britain since September. The latest phase of the campaign, which launched on 8 November, is aimed at friends and family - especially adult children of eligible pensioners - ...
Whether she plans to run an Invitation to Claim campaign to enable more senior citizens to claim Pension Credit before 21 December 2024.
The Department’s ‘Invitation to Claim’ initiative was launched on 30 October. Since then, we have written to around 120,000 pensioner households across Great Britain who are in receipt of Housing Benefit but not Pension Credit. The letter and accompanying...
What the average weekly Pension Credit payment was in April 2024.
Pension Credit data for April 2024 is not currently available. The latest data is from February 2024, when the average weekly Pension Credit payment was £76.20. The next iteration of Pension Credit statistics containing data to May 2024 will be available ...
How many new applications for Pension Credit were made between 10 September 2024 and 10 October 2024.
Data on how many pension credit applications have been made between 1 April 2024 and 22 September 2024 was recently published on gov.uk, Weekly Pension Credit claims received from 1 April 2024 to 22 September 2024 - GOV.UK (www.gov.uk). This shows that be...
How many and what proportion of eligible people claimed Pension Credit in each of the last five financial years.
Information relating to Pension Credit eligibility is only available via take-up statistics. The latest available Pension Credit take-up statistics for Great Britain cover the financial year 2021 to 2022 and are available at: Income-related benefits: esti...
With reference to her Department's press release entitled You could get Pension Credit: Week of Action to drive take up, published on 1 September 2024, whether she has a target of the (a) number and (b)
No targets have been set, the Government wants everyone eligible for Pension Credit but not currently claiming it to receive the benefits they are entitled to. DWP launched the Pension Credit Week of Action on 2 September, joining forces with national cha...