Article: Encouraging take-up: awareness of and attitudes to pension credit.

Article: Pensioner? This could help you It is a shame to hear about 11 per ...
Grimsby Telegraph;  June 21, 2007 ;     554 words ...It is a shame to hear about 11 per cent of elderly living in poverty - in most cases this is not necessary as you are usually entitled to pension credit. The poorest group are entitled to the guaranteed element and the next group - those with a ...

Article: Pension credit estimates of take-up in 2004/2005.
M2 Presswire;  May 11, 2006 ;     700+ words ... ... Editors) and 72 per cent and 79 per cent by expenditure. Total amount of Pension Credit unclaimed was between ... 43 per cent and 50 per cent. Comparisons between the first six months of Pension Credit (PC) in 2003/2004 ...

Article: Fraud and error in Income Support, Jobseeker's Allowance and ...
M2 Presswire;  March 24, 2005 ;     700+ words ... ... to pensioners in MIG / Pension Credit by 20 per cent by March 2006. This is ... overpayment in MIG and Pension Credit was 5.4 per cent of benefit paid during ... fraud and error in MIG and Pension Credit in this period. Analysis ...

Article: Pension Credit now helping over 80% of poorest ...
M2 Presswire;  February 3, 2005 ;     700+ words ... ... 2005-UK Government: Pension Credit now helping over 80 ... pensioners receiving Pension Credit, taken with previous ... indicate that over 80 per cent of the poorest pensioners ... currently benefiting from Pension Credit guarantee awards. Estimates ...

Article: Credit where it's due: the pension credit net has ...
Money Marketing;  October 3, 2002 ;     700+ words ... ... earn a massive 20 per cent return on them. This ... qualifies them for the pension credit plus any savings below ... notional return of 10 per cent a year. Although this ... help demonstrate how the pension credit works. Mrs Smith is ...

Article: Ways and means of the pension credit. (The ...
Money Marketing;  January 24, 2002 ;     700+ words ... ... the same for me The state pension credit is, of course, a mean ... assumed will be 10 per cent of savings in excess of ... the current rate 20 per cent. The treatment of earnings in the state pension credit has still to be determined ...

Article: Give credit where it's due: Pension minister Ian McCartney ...
Money Marketing;  December 13, 2001 ;     700+ words ... ... reading. Apparently, 80 per cent of people polled believe that ... package. A further 58 per cent think that stakeholder has ... generally are up by 55 per cent compared with this time last ... where our proposals for the pension credit come in. Before the advent ...