§ Mr. O'HaraTo ask the Secretary of State for Social Security if she will estimate the percentage and number of pensioners who have an annual income of £2,000 or less in addition to state benefits including the state pension. [28625]
§ Mr. DenhamThe information is not available in the format requested. Such information as is available is set out in the table.
If pensioner units received a weekly income of £38.50 for 52 weeks of the year then their annual income would be £2,002.
Pensioner units with weekly income of less than £38.50 excluding state benefits Percentage of pensioner units Numbers (million) 52 3.7 Notes:
1. The information is based on gross unequivalised weekly income before housing costs and benefit income at July 1995 prices.
2. The Pensioners' Income Series gives estimates for pensioner units. A pensioner unit is defined as a single person over State Pension Age (SPA) or a couple where the man, defined as the head, is over SPA.
3. Numbers of pensioner units are rounded to the nearest 50,000, percentages to the nearest 1 per cent.
Source:
Pensioners1 Income Series 1995–6.