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Progress in tackling pensioner poverty: encouraging take-up of entitlements: technical report: report by the Comptroller and Auditor General
- Author:
- GREAT BRITAIN. National Audit Office
- Publisher:
- Stationery Office
- Publication year:
- 2006
- Pagination:
- 67p., bibliog.
- Place of publication:
- London
The Pension Service has made real and substantial progress since 2002 in helping pensioners to secure their entitlements using new and well thought through approaches, but will need to build on this work to improve take-up still further. The report highlights the need to develop local work to reach those who are not claiming benefits to which they are entitled, and proposes the creation of a wider target to tackle pensioner poverty. In 2004-05, £6 billion was paid out in Pension Credit to 2.7 million pensioner households across England, Scotland and Wales. This represents between 61 per cent to 69 per cent of the eligible population, and is 1 million more households than received its predecessor benefit, the Minimum Income Guarantee. The £20 million spent in the first two years advertising the new benefit was almost twice as cost-effective as advertising for the Minimum Income Guarantee: for every £1 spent on advertising Pension Credit, £55 was paid out in additional benefits. Between 1994-95 and 2004-05 the proportion of pensioners living in relative poverty fell from 27 per cent to 17 per cent, which was an estimated 1.8 million pensioners in 2004-05.
Progress in tackling pensioner poverty: encouraging the take-up of entitlements: report by the Comptroller and Auditor General
- Author:
- GREAT BRITAIN. National Audit Office
- Publisher:
- Stationery Office
- Publication year:
- 2006
- Pagination:
- 38p.
- Place of publication:
- London
The Pension Service has made real and substantial progress since 2002 in helping pensioners to secure their entitlements using new and well thought through approaches, but will need to build on this work to improve take-up still further. The report highlights the need to develop local work to reach those who are not claiming benefits to which they are entitled, and proposes the creation of a wider target to tackle pensioner poverty. In 2004-05, £6 billion was paid out in Pension Credit to 2.7 million pensioner households across England, Scotland and Wales. This represents between 61 per cent to 69 per cent of the eligible population, and is 1 million more households than received its predecessor benefit, the Minimum Income Guarantee. The £20 million spent in the first two years advertising the new benefit was almost twice as cost-effective as advertising for the Minimum Income Guarantee: for every £1 spent on advertising Pension Credit, £55 was paid out in additional benefits. Between 1994-95 and 2004-05 the proportion of pensioners living in relative poverty fell from 27 per cent to 17 per cent, which was an estimated 1.8 million pensioners in 2004-05.
Tackling pensioner poverty: encouraging take-up of entitlements; report by the Comptroller and Auditor General
- Author:
- GREAT BRITAIN. National Audit Office
- Publisher:
- Stationery Office
- Publication year:
- 2002
- Pagination:
- 59p.
- Place of publication:
- London
This report examines what the Department for Work and Pensions both on their own, and with a range of other organisations, have done to tackle pensioner poverty by encouraging pensioners to take up the benefits to which they are entitled, but which, for a variety of reasons, they do not receive. The authors looked specifically at the barriers to take-up and how successful Government has been