Oral Question·Department for Work and Pensions
“What assessment she has made of the potential impact of means testing the Winter Fuel Payment on levels of pensioner poverty.”
Tabled: 6 May 2025Answered: 12 May 2025
Asked by
Wendy Morton
Conservative — Aldridge-Brownhills
Answering Minister
the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions
Answer from Hansard
The Parliamentary Secretary to the Treasury (Torsten Bell)
I refer the right hon. Member to the Secretary of State’s letter of 19 November to the Work and Pensions Committee. As well as means-testing the winter fuel payment, this Government launched the biggest ever pension credit take-up campaign, because we want all pensioners to receive the support to which they are entitled. The result has been almost 50,000 more awards than were received during the same period in the preceding year.