State pensioners who are currently on a low income could receive around £182 extra per week from the Department for Work and Pensions to help boost their payments.
New figures from the DWP reveal that there are currently some 1.9million receiving less than £100 per week in payments, with just under 1.5million of these being women.
Of the overall UK figure, there is in the region of 10.1million elderly recipients seeing payments of up to £141.85 per week - compared to the 2.4million getting new state pension rates, worth up to £185.15 each and every week.
