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Dept for Work and Pensions

Answer

Mr. Cummings: To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions how many retired pensioners are using (a) post offices, (b) banks and (c) building societies to receive their pension in the Easington constituency. [148853] Malcolm Wicks: The information is not available in the format requested. However from information available as at 29 November 2003, in the Easington parliamentary constituency, the number of pensioners (women aged 60 and over, men aged 65 and over) who receive their state pension is given in the following table by type of method of payment. _________________________________________________________________________________________________. Number Total paid at a post office, by either order book or post office 9,038 card account Paid direct to a bank or building society account (some of which 3,685 can be accessed at post office branches) Total number of state pensioners 12,723 _________________________________________________________________________________________________. Source: IAD Information Centre, 100 per cent. sample Information available does not differentiate between bank and building society account for payments direct to accounts. No information is held as to the number of pensioners who receive payments direct to a normal or basic bank or building society accounts who then collect all or part of their pension at the Post Office. The data exclude state pension recipients who receive state pension combined with another benefit and are paid through another benefit system.

Secondary information

Type

Written question

Reference

417 c107W; 148853

Session

2003-04

Subjects

Bank services Banks Building societies Pensions Post offices State retirement pensions Automated credit transfer Easington Payment methods

Contains statistics

Yes

Link

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