Some pensioners are owed thousands in missed payments
Scores of pensioners across the country are facing "massive delays" in getting essential welfare payments that help top-up their regular pension, sparking a debate in parliament this week.
He told the Commons: “Does the minister think it might be time to improve the uptake of pension credit?” But SNP MP Alison Thewliss said: “It’s all very well people applying for pension credit but what The Well advice centre in my constituency has been identifying is massive delays in people getting the pension credit to which are they eligible.
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