Labour decided to means test the Winter Fuel Payment, worth up to £300, after discovering a '£22 billion' black hole in ...

Pension Credit tops up your weekly income to £218.15 if you’re single, or your joint weekly income to £332.95 if you have a partner - this will increase to £227.10 and £346.60 respectively ...

Over the last few years, more and more pensioners have been pushed into poverty, with many of them just about living on the ...

Pension Credit helps those over State Pension age on a low income by boosting annual income by around £4,200 on average while ...

In a bid to increase take-up the Department of Work and Pensions has launched a campaign to raise awareness of the benefit and who can claim it. Claiming pension credit means you’ll also be ...

Welfare payments usually increase each year by the rate of inflation from the previous September, and in April 2025, a rise ...

The latest figures from the Department for Work and Pensions (DWP) show there are now 12.9 million people claiming the State Pension, including over 1.1m living in Scotland. Some 4.1m are on the New ...

The triple lock guarantees an increase in pensions in line with average earnings, inflation or 2.5, whichever is highest.

Pension Credit is to increase from April this year ... households who were entitled to receive Pension Credit did not claim it between April 2022 and March 2023, according to government estimates ...