Closed petition Married pensioners are not exempt from Bedroom Tax

Closed on 30 March 2015

I petition David Cameron to honour his much published statement that no pensioner be forced to pay the Spare Room Subsidy. In other words amend the Part 1, Regulation 3 (Universal Credit Regulations) that states mixed age couples have no entitlement to Pension Credit.


This regulation states that a mixed age couple will not be entitled to state pension credit and will be treated as a working age household.

This could be resolved with the inclusion of a pensioner premium within Universal Credit for couples such as us. This would need to be added to Part 4: the elements of an award of the regulations and reflect more accurately the current situation where a couple with one person above pension age and one below pension age (a ‘mixed-age’ couple) are entitled claim pension credit.