[ssf] lots of benefit money goes unclaimed apparently...

[dave thompson]

hi

very intersting stuff, blows their rubbish about fraud
being  the main problem and costing billions out of
the window

btw, there is a ad hoc meeting of the welfare action
network, six o clock blue moon cafe (before the MPH
meeting)all welcome


--- Amparo <amparo.gutierrez at tiscali.co.uk> wrote:

> 
> > 11 February, 2005
> > 
> > Up to £6 billion in means tested benefits goes
> unclaimed
> > 
> > New government figures
> > 
> > Means tested benefits worth up to £6.26 billion
> went unclaimed in
> > 2002/03, according to new government figures.
> > 
> > The figures, published this week by the DWP,
> highlight the latest
> > estimates of the take-up of the main income
> related benefits in that
> > year - income support, minimum income guarantee,
> income-based JSA,
> > housing benefit and council tax benefit.
> > 
> > Key results included -
> > 
> > * between £270 million and £970 million of income
> support was
> > unclaimed; * between £590 million and £1.17
> billion of income-based
> > JSA was unclaimed, with single people under the
> age of 25
> > representing just over half of those entitled but
> not claiming; *
> > between £800 million and £1.52 billion of minimum
> income guarantee
> > was unclaimed, with those aged 75 or over
> representing half of those
> > entitled but not claiming, and attendance
> allowance or disability
> > living allowance claimants representing around
> one-third; * between
> > £760 million and £1.4 billion of housing benefit
> was unclaimed, with
> > take-up among local authority tenants higher than
> renters of private
> > accommodation; and * between £880 million to £1.2
> billion of council
> > tax benefit was unclaimed, with take-up highest
> among local authority
> > tenants (88-94% by caseload) compared to among
> owner-occupiers
> > (37-42%).
> > 
> > Taking all five benefits together, there was
> between £3.3 billion and
> > £6.26 billion left unclaimed.
> > 
> > For more information, see the DWP press release
> Income related
> > benefits estimates of take-up in 2002/2003.
> > 
> > See also the related rightsnet news stories -
> > 
> > * Data-matching identifies hundreds of thousands
> of pension credit
> > claimants who could be entitled to CTB: New DWP
> guidance (10
> > February, 2005) * A third of households eligible
> to receive pension
> > credit still not claiming: New government figures
> (04 February, 2005)
> >  * Pension Service Partnership Fund launched
> today: £13 million to
> > improve take-up of older people's benefits (25
> January, 2005) *
> > Council Tax Benefit (Entitlement Information)
> Bill: Encouraging
> > take-up by those of pensionable age (17 January,
> 2005)
> > 
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