This petition was submitted during the 2019-2024 parliament
Rejected petition Pay back Pensioners on Housing Benefit their annual pension increase.
Stop Housing Benefit departments from claiming back any increase in State Pensions by reducing Housing Benefit and Council Tax Credit. The poorest Pensioners never receive the inflation proofed annual increase.
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It cannot be fair that the so called Triple Locked annual increase is never received by the Country's poorest Pensioners. The local council simply takes it directly off Housing Benefit. Thus it is not paid to the Pensioner, it is paid to them.
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