Martin Lewis is urging 800,000 people aged 66 or over to check if they are eligible for a “vital” annual income top-up worth around £3,500, on average. Pension Credit is a benefit delivered by the Department for Work and Pensions that is designed to help low-income pensioner households access extra financial support.
“Pension Credit is a top-up to your pension income and my rule of thumb is that if you are single with income of under £200 per week or a couple with income of under £300 per week, check it out.” “If you get Pension Credit, it can enable you to get so many other things like cheaper Council Tax, a free TV licence for the over-75s, lower water bills, the energy cost of living payments - there’s so much that relies on Pension Credit that 800,000 people on lower incomes are missing out on is an absolute tragedy.”
He also confirmed to Martin that if you qualify for Pension Credit now, before the uprating, you will most-likely qualify for it in April after the uprating. Mixed aged older couples and Pension Credit In May 2019, the law changed so that a ‘mixed age couple’ - a couple where one partner is of State Pension age and the other is under it - are considered to be a ‘working age’ couple when checking entitlement to means-tested benefits.
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