The Department for Work and Pensions (DWP) has announced new plans to continue encouraging more than 11 million older people to check if they qualify for an annual income top-up worth over £3,500 by claiming Pension Credit. DWP will soon start writing to pensioner households across the UK as part of the annual uprating of State Pension, advising them about the new payment rates.
DWP Minister Laura Trott MP indicated last month that the accompanying leaflet has been updated to help promote Pension Credit and will include messaging from last year’s campaign to encourage take-up of the benefit which acts as a passport to additional help with housing, heating and Council Tax.
Ms Trott said that an additional £1.8m has been approved for marketing activity until the end of this financial year, on April 5. DWP has also reassigned the full time equivalent of 100 colleagues and recruited 85 temporary staff to process the increased levels of Pension Credit claims following the successful summer campaign last year.
