READ MORE Future of major UK high street chain with 281 shops in doubt<\/strong><\/a><\/p>\nIf they\u2019re in education, it must be for more than 12 hours a week on average. If the child or young person is disabled, you could also get an extra amount of either: \u00a336.54 a week if they get DLA, PIP or ADP OR \u00a3114.12 a week if they\u2019re blind or they get the highest rate care component of DLA or CDP, or the enhanced daily living component of PIP or ADP.<\/p>\n
You could get an extra amount to cover your housing costs, such as ground rent if your property is a leasehold, some service charges or charges for tents and site rents. The amount you could get depends on your housing costs.<\/p>\n
You could get the \u2018Savings Credit\u2019 part of Pension Credit if you reached State Pension age before 6 April 2016 and you saved some money for retirement, for example a personal or workplace pension.<\/p>\n
You\u2019ll get up to \u00a317.30 Savings Credit a week if you\u2019re single. If you have a partner, you\u2019ll get up to \u00a319.36 a week.<\/p>\n
You might still get some Savings Credit even if you do not get the Guarantee Credit part of Pension Credit.<\/p>\n
It is complicated to work out how much Guarantee Pension Credit you can get. The calculation involves comparing your weekly income (which includes your partner\u2019s income if you live with a partner) to a weekly amount set by the government.<\/p>\n
Your income includes State Pension, other pensions, earnings from work and self-employment and most social security benefits.<\/p>\n
The actual amount you get will vary for each person because you could also be entitled to extra amounts, depending on your circumstances. For example, there is an extra amount for carers or people with disabilities.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"With DWP Pension Credit, you could get an extra \u00a367.42 a week for each child or young person…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":218140,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3093],"tags":[51,1267,474,2499,16,15],"class_list":{"0":"post-218139","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-personal-finance","12":"tag-uk","13":"tag-united-kingdom"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/pubeurope.com\/@uk\/114754380588999032","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/218139","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=218139"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/218139\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/218140"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=218139"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=218139"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=218139"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}
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With DWP Pension Credit, you could get an extra \u00a367.42 a week for each child or young person you\u2019re responsible for.<\/p>\n