HC Deb 06 February 1989 vol 146 c488W
40. Mr. Andrew Bowden

To ask the Secretary of State for Social Security what action he proposes to increase the take-up of housing benefit and income support by pensioner households.

Mr. Peter Lloyd

In addition to our normal publicity arrangements, we shall be mounting a special campaign later this year to publicise the extra help which is being made available to pensioners through the income support and housing benefit schemes from October. As part of that campaign we shall be writing to all pensioners aged 75 and over, whose addresses we hold, to explain the changes.