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Four in 10 pensioners missing out on key benefit, says report – The Guardian
Failure to deliver pension credit to poorest ‘is costing NHS and social care £5bn a year’
The NHS and social care systems are picking up an annual bill of about £5bn because the government is failing to deliver a key benefit to poverty-stricken pensioners, according to new analysis.
More than a million pensioners are living on threadbare incomes because they are not receiving pension credit, a benefit designed to keep the poorest pensioners out of poverty.
Pension credit is currently claimed by just six in 10 of pensioners who are entitled to it, in part because awareness of the be…
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