Written Question·Department for Work and Pensions·UIN 18407
Winter Fuel Payment: Poverty
Tabled: 6 December 2024
Answered: 18 December 2024
Question
Matt Vickers
Conservative — Stockton West
To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions, what assessment he has made of the potential impact of recent changes to the eligibility criteria for the Winter Fuel Payment on trends in the level of pensioners living in (a) relative and (b) absolute
Answer
Emma ReynoldsOn 19 November, Secretary of State wrote to the Work and Pensions Select Committee to share internal government modelling produced by the Department outlining estimates of the number of pensioners estimated to move into poverty as a result of the policy c...
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