Need help getting pension credit so you can keep your Winter Fuel Payment? Call our experts TODAY

TEN cardinal pensioners look losing the Winter Fuel Payment – if you are 1 of them telephone our squad of experts TODAY.

We privation to assistance the thousands of pensioners who are worrying astir paying their energy bills with tips and advice. And we privation to assistance find if they whitethorn beryllium successful enactment for Pension Credit.

Our Winter Fuel SOS Crew, including vigor experts and user champions, are disposable contiguous to reply your questions from 7am to 7pm, oregon you tin email.

You tin adjacent interaction connected behalf of pension-age friends with their permission.

PENSIONS Minister Emma Reynolds has backed our Winter Fuel SOS run to assistance thousands of older radical with their bills and heating costs this winter.

Chancellor Rachel Reeves announced successful July that lone households successful England and Wales that person Pension Credit oregon definite means-tested benefits volition beryllium entitled to the Winter Fuel Payment this year.

Previously it was disposable to everyone aged implicit 66.

Charity Age UK yesterday published an interaction appraisal that showed 800,000 hard-up pensioners are missing retired connected Pension Credit and volition present besides suffer the Winter Fuel Payment. Many wrongly judge they aren’t entitled to it.

Backing our run to assistance older radical registry for Pension Credit, Emma Reynolds said: “It is captious we marque definite that pensioners cognize astir each the enactment they are entitled to.

“Our thrust to boost Pension Credit take-up has already seen a 152 per cent summation successful claims and Sun readers tin assistance dispersed the word.

“If you person a friend, neighbour oregon comparative who is simply a pensioner and connected a debased income, telling them astir Pension Credit could boost their income by an mean of £3,900.

“Not lone does Pension Credit apical up income, it besides opens up further support, specified arsenic the Winter Fuel Payment.”

Pension Credit tin beryllium back-dated by 3 months, which means the past day to assertion and inactive get the Winter Fuel Payment is December 21.

As our Winter Fuel SOS experts instrumentality your calls, present we bust immoderate Pension Credit myths.

What is Pension Credit?

If you are implicit state pension property Pension Credit tops up your status income to a minimum of £218.15 per week if you are azygous and £332.95 for couples. It besides opens up entree to different benefits.

I person savings and ain a home, tin I inactive get it?

You tin inactive beryllium eligible. You whitethorn adjacent get assistance towards involvement payments connected your mortgage. How overmuch you get depends connected your income and savings.

Is determination immoderate constituent if I volition lone get a tiny amount?

Yes. If you get immoderate magnitude of Pension Credit you whitethorn besides beryllium capable to get assistance with different costs including Housing Benefit if you rent, a escaped TV licence if you’re implicit 75, assistance with your heating costs and more.

My mum has a terrible disability, is determination immoderate further assistance for her?

Yes, those with a terrible disablement could get an other £81.50 a week if they get immoderate of the following:

• Attendance Allowance.
• Armed Forces Independence Payment.
• The mediate oregon highest complaint from the attraction constituent of Disability Living Allowance (DLA).
• The regular surviving constituent of Personal Independence Payment (PIP).
• The regular surviving constituent of Adult Disability Payment (ADP) astatine the modular oregon enhanced rate.

I americium a carer for my grandchild, is determination immoderate further assistance for me?

Yes, if you’re a carer you could get an other £45.60 if you get Carer’s Allowance oregon Carer Support Payment.

And, if you and your spouse person some claimed oregon are getting Carer’s Allowance, you tin some get this other amount.

I was turned down for Pension Credit before, is it worthy claiming again?

Definitely, particularly if your circumstances person changed.

Is determination a mode of estimating however overmuch I could get?

There is simply a Pension Credit calculator astatine gov.uk/pension-credit-calculator to assistance you enactment retired however overmuch you could beryllium eligible for earlier applying.

Alternatively, you tin interaction the Pension Service helpline connected 0800 731 046 if you’re not definite whether you’re eligible for other amounts.

OK, truthful however tin I use and is it complicated?

Claiming is straightforward. You tin bash it:

• Online astatine gov.uk/pension-credit/how-to-claim.
• Over the telephone by calling 0800 99 1234.
• By printing retired and filling successful a insubstantial exertion form.

And if you request immoderate other support, a person oregon voluntary organisation specified arsenic Age UK tin assistance you marque a claim.