Written questions

Winter Fuel Payment: Poverty

Commons · Question 18407 · Tabled 6 Dec 2024 · Department for Work and Pensions · Official record

Answered 18 Dec 2024

Question

Asked by Matt Vickers

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

Answered by Emma Reynolds, 18 Dec 2024

On 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...