Written Question·Department for Work and Pensions·UIN 2366

Winter Fuel Payment

Tabled: 30 July 2024
Answered: 5 September 2024
Named Day

Question

Rachael Maskell

Labour (Co-op)York Central

To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions, with reference to the Chancellor of the Exchequer's oral statement on 29 July 2024, Official Report, column 1038 on Public spending: inheritance, what assessment his Department has made of the potentia

Answer

Emma Reynolds
Ministers took account of the equality impacts in reaching their decision to link Winter Fuel Payments to receipt of Pension Credit and other qualifying income-related benefits in England and Wales from winter 2024-25. Given the substantial pressures face...

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