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Dept of Social Security

Answer

Mrs. Curtis-Thomas: To ask the Secretary of State for Social Security how many people chose to have child benefit and pensions paid by automatic transfer into bank accounts in each year since 1992. [120803] Mr. Rooker: The information is in the table. Number of customers in receipt of child benefit and pensions{ 1} choosing payment into a bank account since 1992. _________________________________________________________________________________________________. Year{ 2} Number of child benefit customers choosing Number of retirement pension and widows ACT pension customers choosing ACT{ 3} 1992 1,505,425 2,392,292 1993 1,594,600 3,043,118 1994 1,741,875 3,315,930 1995 1,880,650 3,543,713 1996 2,063,150 3,854,419 1997 2,241,275 4,014,874 1998 2,436,900 4,272,662 1999 2,620,075 4,554,997 _________________________________________________________________________________________________. {1} "Pensions" has been interpreted as referring to retirement (RP) and widows (WP) pension, for which details are only available as a combined number. {2} Date as at November of each year. {3} These figures exclude pensioners who are entitled to Income Support and receive a combined payment, and include customers resident overseas.

Secondary information

Type

Written question

Reference

349 c276-7W; 120803

Session

1999-00

Subjects

Child benefit Bank services Pensions Payments Recipients Social security benefits Automated credit transfer

Contains statistics

Yes

Link

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