- Winter Fuel Payments: Pensioner Poverty
- The following extract is from Work and Pensions questions on 3 February 2025.
- What assessment she has made of the potential impact of means-testing the winter fuel payment on levels of pensioner poverty.
- What assessment she has made of the potential impact of means-testing the winter fuel payment on levels of pensioner poverty.
- This Government have run the biggest ever take-up campaign on pension credit, which is worth around £400 on average to those eligible.[Official Report, 3 February 2025; Vol. 761, c. 534.]Written correction submitted by the Under-Secretary of State for Work and Pensions, the hon. Member for Swansea West (Torsten Bell):
- This Government have run the biggest ever take-up campaign on pension credit, which is worth around £4,200 a year on average to those eligible.