The committee also warns that extra staff being brought in by the DWP to process additional pension credit claims will need months of training
, said ministers need to “urgently” conduct a review of how the cuts for 10m pensioners will affect those in poorer households and the disabled.
It also questions whether the decision by Rachel Reeves can save the Treasury £1.5bn a year if more pensioners are being encouraged to sign up for pension credit and qualify for the allowance. “It has subsequently been confirmed that a full assessment of impact does not exist, with the Prime Minister commenting that it was not legally necessary and that ‘The impact will be mitigated by pension credit, by the housing benefit’.
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