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Number of Pension Credit benefit claimant households
(5619)
Metric type
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- This is the number of households where one or more persons claimed Pension Credit at 31st May each year.
Pension Credit (PC) replaced the Minimum Income Guarantee (MIG) from October 2003. It is designed to ensure that help is still directed at pensioners at the lower end of the income scale and, in addition, to reward those people who have made modest
provision for their retirement. Pension Credit guarantees that no-one aged over the female State Pension age need live on an income of less than a guaranteed amount. These amounts increase if pensioners have caring responsibilities, are severely disabled or have housing costs. The guarantee credit works by topping up pensioners' weekly income to the guaranteed amount.
To be entitled to Pension Credit, the applicant must be over the female State Pension age and living in Great Britain. In the case of a couple, either may claim if both are over the female State Pension age but only one partner can get Pension Credit at any one time. MIG households were automatically transferred to Pension Credit. However, there are still a small number of MIG claimants, whose partner is aged 60 or over and could claim Pension Credit, but who in the majority choose not to do so.
These statistics have been derived from DWP out-of-work benefit data.
Data are rounded to the nearest ten for larger geographical areas. For smaller geographies such as Ward and Lower Layer Super Output Area, figures are independently rounded to five. Totals may not sum due to rounding.
- Modified
- 11 Nov 2020
- Data last updated
- 23 Jun 2022
- Short label
- Number of PC benefit claimant households
- Status
- Discontinued
- Output precision
- 0
- Polarity
- not applicable
- Measure
- Pension Credit claimant households
- Dataset
- Number of Children living in Pension Credit Claimant Households
- Source
- Department for Work and Pensions
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