Author: Tony Watts

To mark Pension Credit Week of Action (12th- 16th June), national older people’s charity Independent Age is urging everyone in later life who is struggling financially to check if they are eligible for the entitlement.

Taxpayers now have until 5 April 2025 to fill gaps in their National Insurance record from April 2006 that may increase their State Pension – an extension of nearly two years – the government announced today (12 June).

Charities are expressing their concerns that – despite the reduction in average energy bills as from July – many pensioner households will face real hardship in the months ahead.

Independent Age reacts to disappointing Pension Credit caseload statistics: “These numbers show that the government’s broad brush approach of awareness raising simply isn’t working fast enough.”