The Department for Work and Pensions (DWP) has recently confirmed that nearly 78 per cent of all new Pension Credit claims ...

The Standard Minimum Guarantee for Pension Credit is one of the payments that will increase by 4.1%, in line with the increase in Average Weekly Earnings in the year to May to July 2024. This also ...

HRP underpayments - September 2024 Underpayments identified: 5,344 Average arrears payment: £7,859 Total amount repaid: £42m ...

You may also be entitled to the Winter Fuel Payment, the Warm House Discount, social tariffs, cheaper broadband, free TV ...

Hundreds of thousands of pensioners are being put on alert over a special payment which will be landing in their bank account ...

The DWP has issued a crucial update as Winter Fuel Payment letters go out to pensioners amid a long-running row over ...

Some people who received Universal Credit may not have had their National Insurance Credits correctly attributed to their National Insurance record held by HMRC which could affect their State Pension.

Campaigning pensioners have quizzed Bolton’s three MPs on the government’s decision to cut winter fuel payments. The controversial budget cut means that older people across the country will lose one ...

The majority of overpayments are within Universal Credit where £6.5 billion is estimated to have been overpaid. Other benefit ...

Nine in 10 pensioners have admitted that they will not be able to survive on the state pension alone despite the triple lock, ...

Nearly 120,000 elderly women are set to receive a total of £736 million in back payments due to previous underpayments on their State Pensions, as revealed by new data from the Department for Work and ...