PARLIAMENTARY WRITTEN QUESTION
Pension Credit: Poole (30 July 2024)

Information relating to Pension Credit eligibility is only available via take-up statistics. The latest available Pension Credit take-up statistics for Great Britain cover the financial year 2021 to 2022 and are available at: Income-related benefits: estimates of take-up: financial year ending 2022 - GOV.UK (www.gov.uk). However, these statistics are only available at Great Britain level and cannot be broken down to smaller geographical areas.

Caseload statistics are routinely published and made publicly available via DWP Stat-xplore. At November 2023, there were 2,139 people claiming Pension Credit in Poole.