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Progress in tackling pensioner poverty: encouraging take-up of entitlements
— report by the Comptroller and Auditor General | | Corporate Author | National Audit Office - NAO |
| Publisher | The Stationery Office, London, 2006 |
| Pages | 38 pp (HC 1178-I Session 2005/06) |
| Source | The Stationery Office, PO Box 29, Norwich NR3 1GN. NAO website link: http://www.nao.org.uk/pn/05-06/05061178.htm |
| Keywords | Social security benefits ; Usage [services] ; Claims [services] ; Poor elderly ; Government publications. |
| Annotation | This report assesses progress made by the Department for Work and Pensions (DWP) against the National Audit Office (NAO) previous recommendations in "Tackling pensioner poverty: encouraging take-up of entitlements (HC 37 Session 2002/03; TSO, 2002). Overall, it concludes that the Pension Service has made real and substantial progress in helping pensioners to secure their entitlements using new and well thought through approaches. The report considers the DWP's key role in tackling pensioner poverty. It looks at benefit take-up and identifying pensioners who are not taking up entitlements, for example Pension Credit. The report looks at raising awareness and encouraging pensioners to apply; joint working and working in partnership with others; and simplifying and joining up processes as ways of increasing benefit take-up. Appendix 1 outlines the methodology which is dealt with in greater detail in the accompanying Technical report. (RH). |
| Accession Number | CPA-060725001 B |
| Classmark | JH: QLD: QLT: F:W6: 6OA |
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