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Winter Fuel Payment
To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions, what the cost to the public purse was of the winter fuel allowance in 2022/23; what estimate she has made of the savings to the public purse of only paying the winter fuel allowance o people claiming pe
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- Answering body
- Department for Work and Pensions
- Tabled
- 29 Jul 2024
- Target answer date
- 2 Sept 2024
- Answer
- 17 Sept 2024 · 50 calendar days after tabling
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Recorded timeline
29 Jul 2024
Question tabled
To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions, what the cost to the public purse was of the winter fuel allowance in 2022/23; what estimate she has made of the savings to the public purse of only paying the winter fuel allowance o people claiming pe
2 Sept 2024
Target answer date
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17 Sept 2024
Answer published
In 2022/23, 11.4 million people in 8.4 million households in Great Britain received a Winter Fuel Payment, at a total cost of £2 billion. The Government estimates that linking entitlement to receipt of Pension Credit and other relevant DWP income-related ...
Official data retrieved 27 Sept 2026.
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