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Winter Fuel Payment

Commons · Question 2366 · Tabled 30 Jul 2024 · Department for Work and Pensions · Official record

Answered 5 Sep 2024

Question

Asked by Rachael Maskell

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

Answered by Emma Reynolds, 5 Sep 2024

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...