Oliver Heald: Does the Minister agree that the Government have also gone further than they needed to on the pension credit? The requirement is to uprate by earnings but he has gone one better by increasing it by 3.9%.
So not only were the siren calls resisted, but more generosity was shown to the poorest pensioners.
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