Winter Fuel Payment
Commons · Question 36835 · Tabled 10 Mar 2025 · Department for Work and Pensions · Official record
Answered 13 Mar 2025
Question
Asked by Andrew Snowden
To ask the Secretary of State 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 in (a) Fylde constituency and (b) Lancashire.
Answer
Answered by Torsten Bell, 13 Mar 2025
On 19 November 2024, the Secretary of State wrote to the Work and Pensions Select Committee to share internal government modelling produced by the Department outlining the number of pensioners in the UK estimated to move into poverty as a result of the po...