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Article: Pension Credit take-up: rural pensioners left out in the cold!
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- December 19, 2007
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M2 PRESSWIRE-19 December 2007-UK Government: Pension Credit take-up: rural pensioners left out in the cold!(C)1994-2007 M2 COMMUNICATIONS LTD
RDATE:18122007
As part of its series of State of the Countryside updates, the Commission for Rural Communities (CRC) is today publishing new information about the take-up of pension credit in rural England.
Overall the take-up of pension credit is lower in rural areas: 42% of eligible rural pensioners are non-recipients of pension credit compared with 35% in urban areas. In villages and hamlets and isolated dwellings the difference is even more pronounced - 54% of eligible pensioners are non-recipients of ...