DWP to merge two key benefits as it gives update on plans that will affect millions

THE Department for Work and Pensions will merge two key benefits as it issues an update on its plans that will affect millions of claims.

The shake-up will combine pension-age housing benefit and pension credit into a single benefit, and the plans are now moving forward.

The move, first mooted in 2011 but repeatedly delayed, will see those over 66 receive a single, unified benefit, simplifying...