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registered interest
date	16/07/2014
answering body	Department for Work and Pensions
answering dept id	29
answering dept short name	Work and Pensions
answering dept sort name	Work and Pensions
hansard heading	Pension Credit
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions, with reference to the impact assessment of the single-tier pension published in October 2013, if he will make an estimate of how many people reaching state pension age after implementation of the single-tier pension in (a) the UK and (b) Scotland would have been eligible for savings credit in (i) 2020 and (ii) 2030 had savings credit not been abolished.
tabling member constituency	Banff and Buchan
tabling member printed	Dr Eilidh Whiteford
uin	206369
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 22/07/2014 answer text <p /> <p /> <p>The full rate of the new State Pension will give an income above the basic means test, rewarding retirement income saving.</p><p> </p><p>It is estimated that in 2020 around 10% of pensioner households receiving the new State Pension, around 200,000 benefit units, in Great Britain would be eligible for the Savings Credit element of Pension Credit if it had not been removed for people who reached State Pension age after the introduction of new State Pension in April 2016.</p><p> </p><p>By 2030, it is estimated that 15% of the new State Pension households, around 1 million benefit units, would be in this position.</p><p> </p><p>Not all of these people would take up their eligibility to Savings Credit. The Department estimates that take-up amongst people eligible for only the Savings Credit element of Pension Credit is between 43% and 48%.</p><p> </p><p>Breakdowns of the impact analysis by country or region within Great Britain are not available.</p><p> </p><p>It is estimated that retaining Savings Credit for all pensioners and uprating it line with earnings would lead to additional annual costs in the UK of around £2bn in 20 years' time.</p><p> </p> answering member constituency Thornbury and Yate answering member printed Steve Webb question first answered 22/07/2014 11:49:29 answering member 220 label Biography information for Steve Webb
tabling member	3911 label Biography information for Dr Eilidh Whiteford

106123

registered interest
date	03/11/2014
answering body	Department for Work and Pensions
answering dept id	29
answering dept short name	Work and Pensions
answering dept sort name	Work and Pensions
hansard heading	Pension Credit
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions, what recent estimate he has made of the number of eligible pensioners that do not receive pension credit.
tabling member constituency	Leicester West
tabling member printed	Liz Kendall
uin	213005
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 06/11/2014 answer text <p>The most recent estimates of take-up can be found in the Income Related Benefits: Estimates of Take-up report which provides caseload and expenditure estimates of take-up for Pension Credit in Great Britain for the financial year 2009-10. The figures are available online and can be found here: <a href="https://www.gov.uk/government/collections/income-related-benefits-estimates-of-take-up--2" target="_blank">https://www.gov.uk/government/collections/income-related-benefits-estimates-of-take-up--2</a></p><p> </p><p>Experimental estimates of take-up of income-related benefits based on an improved methodology for Great Britain are provisionally due to be published in January to February 2015.</p> answering member constituency Thornbury and Yate answering member printed Steve Webb question first answered 06/11/2014 13:45:29 answering member 220 label Biography information for Steve Webb
tabling member	4026 label Biography information for Liz Kendall

225297

registered interest
date	04/03/2015
answering body	Department for Work and Pensions
answering dept id	29
answering dept short name	Work and Pensions
answering dept sort name	Work and Pensions
hansard heading	Pension Credit
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions, what estimate he has made of the number of people for whom the freezing of the savings element of pensions credit and increases in the basic state pension has had a net negative effect on their income in each of the last three financial years.
tabling member constituency	Aberdeen South
tabling member printed	Dame Anne Begg
uin	226249
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 09/03/2015 answer text <p>The overall impact of benefit up-rating on a customer’s income depends on a wide variety of factors (including for example any changes to their non state pensions that occur around the same time) which means we cannot accurately measure these impacts. However, the increases in the basic State Pension under the terms of the triple lock, have been more significant than the reductions in the savings credit. Overall it is unlikely that any Pension Credit customer should be worse off, in cash terms, as a result of the uprating decisions made over the last three years.</p> answering member constituency Thornbury and Yate answering member printed Steve Webb grouped question UIN 226248 question first answered 09/03/2015 16:06:27 answering member 220 label Biography information for Steve Webb
tabling member	572 label Biography information for Dame Anne Begg

225300

registered interest
date	04/03/2015
answering body	Department for Work and Pensions
answering dept id	29
answering dept short name	Work and Pensions
answering dept sort name	Work and Pensions
hansard heading	Pension Credit
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions, what estimate he has made of the number of people in receipt of pension credit whose income from their state pension and pension credit was (a) less in the 2014-15 financial year than it was in the previous financial year, and (b) less in the 2013-14 financial year than it was in the 2012-13 financial year.
tabling member constituency	Aberdeen South
tabling member printed	Dame Anne Begg
uin	226248
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 09/03/2015 answer text <p>The overall impact of benefit up-rating on a customer’s income depends on a wide variety of factors (including for example any changes to their non state pensions that occur around the same time) which means we cannot accurately measure these impacts. However, the increases in the basic State Pension under the terms of the triple lock, have been more significant than the reductions in the savings credit. Overall it is unlikely that any Pension Credit customer should be worse off, in cash terms, as a result of the uprating decisions made over the last three years.</p> answering member constituency Thornbury and Yate answering member printed Steve Webb grouped question UIN 226249 question first answered 09/03/2015 16:06:27 answering member 220 label Biography information for Steve Webb
tabling member	572 label Biography information for Dame Anne Begg