Pension Credit

Hi Team
My Partner is in receipt of sickness related ESA (Income Related).
He will reach state pension age in 2022 when he is 66 yrs.
I need to find out if he will be able to claim Pension Credit at his state pension age.
. As the claim is for us as a couple, I think that since the new rulings both the man & the woman in the couple have to be of state pension age ? So mixed age can disqualify the older partner from claiming if he has a younger spouse ?
But, he claims Housing Benefit on our behalf, so I think this may make a difference ?

Thank you for any advice you can give.

Joy

If you are younger than him then this will bar him from making a claim for Pension Credit until you also reach State Retirement Age.

You will have have to make a claim for UC in order for you to continue to receive Housing Benefit.

Gordon