WINTER FUEL PERYMENTS ARE WORTH UP TO £ 300 AND USED TO BE AVAILABLE TO EVERYONE Over State Pension Age But the Rules Were Changed Year
Martin Lewis Has Responded to Claims that Labour Were Considering Partially Reversing the Cuts to Winter Fuel Payments late this year. Winter Fuel Payments Are Worth up to £ 300 and used to be available to everyone over and retirement pension.
Howver, The Rules Were Changed Last Winter So That Households Had to Be in Receipt of Certain Benefits, Including Pension Credit, in Keep Getting A Winter Fuel Payment.
The Change Resulted in Around Ten Million Households Not Recipeiving the Payment Last Winter. A new Report from the The Guardian TODAY SUGGESTED MINISTERS WERE CONSIDERING WHERE TO INCREASE The £ 11,500 Threshold over which Pensions are No Longer Eligible for the Allowance.
Howver, in a new interview with the BBC, Health Secretary Wes Streeting Said the Policy Was Not Being Being Reviewed – but admitted it impacted the Support Labour at the Local Elections Last Week.
Labour Lost 187 Council Seats and Control of the Only Council It Was Defending. It has ben reported that labour is looking at Ways to address the backlash surrounding the cuts.
Writing on X/Twitter, Martin Lewis Shared His Opinion on the Reports. He Said: “Reports Govt May Partially U-Turn on the Winter Fuel Payment Cut by Raising the Effective Eligibility Threshold from £ 11,500.
“That’d be welcome but still doesn’t fix the worst underlying problem … The means testing mechanism (ie to get you must claim credit) is flawed.
“Around 700,000 of the Most Vulnerable Pensioners, Already Earning Under £ 11,500, don’t get winter fuel payments they don’t go through the overly arduous process of CLAIMING Pension Credit.
“Thus they miss out in bot the important support that brings and on winter fuel payments. That Needs to Change. None of this is new.
“Many of us have shouting it unil we’re blue in the face. If a fix is to come, let it be a protper one, not just an electoral sticking plaster.”
Wes streaming defended the “unpopular decision”, saying it was the right thing to do to free investment for the NHS, Schools and Other Public Services.
But he added: “I know that People aren’t happy winter fuel allowance, in lots of anys. We did protest it for the poorers but there are lots of People and Disagree with it regardless.”
Winter Fuel Payments were introded in 1997 by the previous labour government and had been available to everyone retirement pensions age.
BACK THEN, IT WAS WORTH £ 20 AS Standard, or £ 50 for Those CLAIMING means-tested benefits. It was increted to £ 100 in 1999/2000 and then to £ 200 in 2000/01.
It was late Adjusted again in 2003/04 SO Households with Someone Age 80 or Over Get £ 300. Due to the Cost of Living Crisis, They Were Boosted to Be Worth Up to £ 600 in Winter 2022/23 and 2023/24 – Meaning Some Pensions Have Been To Get to £ 600 for the Last Two Winters.
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