Lifestyle Money Benefits Pension Credit payment rules older people should know before going on holiday this year Over 1.4 million people on Pension Credit should tell the DWP if they plan to leave ...

There are also more than 700,000 older people eligible for a State Pension top-up of £4,300 annual income top-up.

According to the recent report an estimated £9.5 billion was wrongly paid out by the Department through overpayments or underpayments, equating to 3.3% of the total benefits expenditure. This ...

The DWP said: “The minimum guarantee for Pension Credit - the minimum amount that someone on Pension Credit will receive - is also set to increase by 4.1% from 7 April. For single pensioners it ...

It means that if you have too much money in savings, you could be ineligible for Pension Credit and, in turn, unable to claim a winter fuel payment (because you need to claim Pension Credit to ...

Yet, there is a lesser-known restriction in place - the £10,000 rule for Pension Credit. State pensioners can claim Pension Credit if they earn less than approximately £227 per week. For those ...

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It is not possible to say something like: “such percentage as will create a pension credit of £200,000.” There is legal precedent from the courts confirming this in the case of H vs H [2009 ...

This means that a pensioner couple both aged under 80 and not on Pension Credit will each get a payment of £100 each from the DWP this winter.

However, after the Labour government came to power in July 2024, the chancellor announced that the payment would only be received by pensioners on low incomes who received benefits such as pension ...

The government estimated that the cost of the winter fuel payment system it inherited in 2024-25 would have been £1.9bn. It estimated that its initial reform last year would cut this bill by £1 ...

Chancellor Rachel Reeves announced a major policy U-turn on winter fuel payments to pensioners Monday – months after it was cut as part of the UK government's autumn budget. Under the new scheme ...