Has everyone received a letter from Dwp regarding WFP?

My partner and I got ours last week. Total waste of time and money.

We both got ours last week. Yes, waste of money as we knew we wouldn’t get it.
I was never informed by letter ( born 1954 ) about the pension age changes.

Yes got mine last week. Knew I wasn't eligible anyway.

But maybe they send them out with all the details of who can claim so that if they have made a mistake people will be made aware to query it if they see they are eligible.

I get the feeling that it would also been wrong had no letters been sent out.

MissAdventure

I get the feeling that it would also been wrong had no letters been sent out.

Yup!

Neither of us have had a letter either. I’m not bothered, it’s a waste of money, in my opinion. Surely everyone knows, it’s been all over the news for weeks.

I got one letter about my change of pension age; it said my new pension age would be 61. I didn’t get another letter telling me that actually my pension age had been changed again to 63. I was not informed of that at all. I found out accidentally when doing a search online to check the exact time of my state pension age.

foxie48

MissAdventure

I get the feeling that it would also been wrong had no letters been sent out.

Yup!

Exactly so MissAdventure.
Moaning seems to be a national pastime

MissAdventure

I get the feeling that it would also been wrong had no letters been sent out.

Exactly! They can’t do right for doing wrong 🙄

I don’t know why posters think that they should have had one letter between two either 🤷🏼‍♀️

I expect there’s a legal or societal/ethical reason why individual people received individual letters

Yes we have.
One for Himself on Friday.
One for me in the post today. The postage bill must be phenomenal!
Crazy.

You're two separate people, though. (I'm sure you've already noticed!)

In terms of benefits, national insurance, and so on, you each have presumably different histories?

Exactly MissA.

I’ve resisted moving from paper to online bank statements. My hospital appointments and any appointments with my GP now arrive digitally. I expect letters by mail to become extinct before long.
Currently, we still have letters from public bodies. I can onky imagine the outcry if people had received texts, or no confirmation of any kind on the WFA

I’ve banked on line for over 20 years without a problem. 😊
Paper? Letters?
Soon be obsolete.
Ah wait … many hospitals STILL use paper records. Duh!

Me too rosie51 still working!

I genuinely don’t get why people are complaining about this, when the same people complain that they didn’t receive letters from the DWP about the pension age changing. If everybody gets a letter, nobody can say they don’t know, and that they haven’t been told how to claim support if they are entitled to it, can they?

People are complaining/commenting (I didn't complain merely noted we had received letters) because most of the letters will be going to people who no longer qualify and it does seem a waste of money when we're told how bad the finances are, even if it is unavoidable. Of course letters had to be sent to individuals, no government agency can send out joint benefit letters. If these letters prompt those that are eligible for pension credit, but not currently claiming, to apply for it then that will be a good outcome.

Iam64

I expect there’s a legal or societal/ethical reason why individual people received individual letters

Data protection.

Iam64

Exactly MissA.

I’ve resisted moving from paper to online bank statements. My hospital appointments and any appointments with my GP now arrive digitally. I expect letters by mail to become extinct before long.
Currently, we still have letters from public bodies. I can onky imagine the outcry if people had received texts, or no confirmation of any kind on the WFA

We haven’t received any letters about the WFA and we’re not bothered or moaning.
We don’t care, because we already know!

Got mine the other day.
Saying the benefits you’ve got to be on before you get it
I won’t be getting it, thank goodness I’m still working. albeit part time.

I had an email from Eon telling me the £150 had been credited to my account the other week . I received the letter telling me I would get it this which I received yesterday. Don't see the point of having a letter when my energy company had already told me they had received it.

Yes, and it was completely unnecessary.

I and my husband have both had a letter saying we won't be getting WFP this year after getting for the first and only time last year. What a waste of money reminding us what we already knew that the grabbing Labour Chancellor is targeting pensioners because she has to pay for all the pay rises she's awarded to their union backers. I'm dreading the Budget!

Just received a letter (applied last April) after a few weeks I contacted PC the person answering was very rude told me I would hear from them in due course said goodbye and went off the line.I'm just above pension credit entitlement so not eligible for WFP. Predicament do I freeze or get into debt.....

Although people on this board know about the details of WFA after a long summer of discussion:

We cant assume that everyone does, nor who they are, to "target" letters.

Far from it. as conversations I have had with a care worker in SSD show.

The letters also did something very valuable in reminding people to claim Pension Credit and how, and which benefits mean that people will get WFA. Very far from wasted letters.

MissAdventure

I get the feeling that it would also been wrong had no letters been sent out.

Yes absolutely they cannot win whoever they are, if they do they are wrong, if they don't they are wrong too, dear me