Martin Lewis issues pension credit plea to nation as he hits out at Rachel ReevesThe Martin Lewis Money/ ITV
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00:00A million people claim pension credit. Around 800,000 people eligible for pension credit
00:05don't claim pension credit. It is a critically underclaimed benefit. The idea we're protecting
00:11the poorest pensioners through pension credit with the 240 question form, with the 800,000
00:17people, many with onset dementia, who do not claim pension credit, we are not protecting
00:22800,000 of them. I was expecting some mitigation from that because many people, me and Age
00:27Concern and others have been lobbying about this. It has not happened. I just want to
00:32say, because the government aren't doing anything, if you know someone on the state pension on
00:38a very low income, they've lost the cost of living payment, they've lost winter fuel payment,
00:45please get them to check if they're eligible for pension credit. More should have been
00:49done. It isn't being done. Get them to check. They just have to call up. It doesn't matter
00:53if they're not eligible, they can always check. 700,000, 800,000 of the poorest in
00:57our society, who even the government thinks should be getting winter fuel payment, will
01:01not this winter. We perhaps collectively need to act on it.