Pension credit rules to change

Toneey

Hi people,
something you should be aware of coming soon, if the Welfare Reform Bill going through Parliament is passed in it's present form.

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Welfare Reform Bill Explanatory Notes:

Page 22
145. Paragraph 64 amends the State Pension Credit Act 2002 so that a member of a couple who has attained the qualifying age for state pension credit may not receive state pension credit if the other member of the couple has not attained that qualifying age. This is to ensure that all claimants who have not attained the qualifying age for state pension credit are required to claim universal credit and, if appropriate, be subject to work-related conditions of entitlement.

And in the Welfare Reform Bill itself,

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Page 113
State Pension Credit Act 2002 (c. 16)

Paragraph 64 In section 4 of the State Pension Credit Act 2002 (exclusions), after subsection
(1) there is inserted—

“(1A) A claimant is not entitled to state pension credit if he is a member of a couple the other member of which has not attained the qualifying age.”

This of course will have a big impact for people on Pension Credit who are already struggling with the winter fuel bills and rising costs, so let's start contacting our MP's now to protest before it gets passed.

Toneey.