Question follow-through · 3490
Winter Fuel Payment
To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions, what date people must submit a pension credit claim by to qualify for the 2024 winter fuel allowance.
About this written question
A written question asks a government minister for information in writing. Parliament publishes the question and any answer.
- Answering body
- Department for Work and Pensions
- Tabled
- 30 Aug 2024
- Target answer date
- 4 Sept 2024
- Answer
- 5 Sept 2024 · 6 calendar days after tabling
Elapsed calendar days describe the record timeline, not whether Parliament considers an answer on time.
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Recorded timeline
30 Aug 2024
Question tabled
To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions, what date people must submit a pension credit claim by to qualify for the 2024 winter fuel allowance.
4 Sept 2024
Target answer date
Date supplied by the official written-questions record.
5 Sept 2024
Answer published
A claim for Pension Credit can be backdated by up to three months, as long as the conditions of entitlement are met during that period. This means that any claim made by 21 December and successfully backdated can qualify for this year’s Winter Fuel Paymen...
Official data retrieved 27 Sept 2026.
Later records
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