HC Deb 11 April 2000 vol 348 cc141-2W
Mr. Webb

To ask the Secretary of State for Social Security if he will estimate the proportion of recipients of letters under his minimum income guarantee take-up campaign who are entitled to income support. [117870]

Mr. Rooker

As part of the Minimum Income Guarantee (MIG) take-up campaign we will be writing to around 2 million pensioners whom our records suggest are most likely to have underlying entitlement. This targeted group will be pensioners who our pension records suggest have incomes below the MIG level. However, we do not know how many of these pensioners will have capital or other income that could affect their entitlement to benefit.