The Minister is right to highlight the issue of pensioner poverty. One contributory factor is that between 1.1 million and 1.7 million pensioners do not claim the pension credit to which they are entitled. What is the Minister doing to raise the number of people claiming such benefits, given the complexity of the means-tested system that the Government have put in place?
Social Security
Proceeding contribution from
Danny Alexander
(Liberal Democrat)
in the House of Commons on Thursday, 21 February 2008.
It occurred during Legislative debate on Social Security.
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