Webb to pay 2,000 people unclaimed pension credit

Webb says the project will look at ways of making better use of the data held about individuals, both from DWP administrative records and those of HMRC, in order to help improve the take-up of pension credit. The 2,000 pensioners who do not claim pension credit, but are eligible for it, will be chosen at random, and payments will begin in December. Webb says the study will help to find out "how in the long term a reshaping of the benefit or acquisition of better data might enable the Government to streamline radically the process" for paying pension credit. Benefits will be paid in...