{"id":108827,"date":"2025-05-17T10:52:13","date_gmt":"2025-05-17T10:52:13","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/108827\/"},"modified":"2025-05-17T10:52:13","modified_gmt":"2025-05-17T10:52:13","slug":"state-pensioners-must-obey-dwp-holiday-rule-or-face-being-taken-to-court","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/108827\/","title":{"rendered":"State pensioners must obey DWP holiday rule or face ‘being taken to court’"},"content":{"rendered":"

State pensioners are being warned to obey a little-known Department for Work and Pensions ( DWP<\/a> ) rule if they’re heading out on holiday this year.<\/p>\n

Pension Credit claimants may not realise they need to inform the DWP if they plan to holiday outside mainland UK for any duration this year. A question in the DWP FAQ online asks: “Can I leave Great Britain and keep getting Pension Credit?”<\/p>\n

The DWP states: “We may pay Pension Credit for up to 4 weeks while you’re temporarily away from Great Britain and we may pay for up to 8 weeks if the absence is in connection with a death.”<\/p>\n

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The DWP adds: “If the absence is solely in connection with medical treatment or medically approved convalescence, we may pay Pension Credit for up to 26 weeks.<\/p>\n

“But you should tell us before you go if you’re going to leave Great Britain for any reason at all, even if you’ll only be away for a short time. This includes if you go to Northern Ireland, the Isle of Man or the Channel Islands.”<\/p>\n

You also need to report if your income or expenses change. This can include changes to housing costs, for example ground rent or service charges.<\/p>\n

It can also include changes to benefits that anyone living in your home gets – including getting a new benefit or a benefit being stopped, changes to occupational or personal pensions – including if you start to get a new pension or take a lump sum out of your pension pot, and changes to other income, for example foreign pensions or Working Tax Credits.<\/p>\n

It can also include changes to savings, investments or property. The DWP adds: “Call the Pension Credit helpline if you\u2019re not sure if you need to report a change.<\/p>\n

“You could be taken to court or have to pay a penalty if you give wrong information or do not report a change in your circumstances.”<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"State pensioners are being warned to obey a little-known Department for Work and Pensions ( DWP ) rule…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":108828,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3093],"tags":[51,1267,474,4884,24705,2499,16,15],"class_list":{"0":"post-108827","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-personal-finance","8":"tag-business","9":"tag-dwp","10":"tag-finance","11":"tag-great-britain","12":"tag-pension-credit","13":"tag-personal-finance","14":"tag-uk","15":"tag-united-kingdom"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/pubeurope.com\/@uk\/114522799947073865","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/108827","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=108827"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/108827\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/108828"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=108827"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=108827"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=108827"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}