Question follow-through · 4039

Winter Fuel Payment

To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions, what the proposed saving is from the reduction in the franchise of the Winter Fuel Payment.

answeredDepartment for Work and Pensions

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Answering body: Department for Work and Pensions
Tabled: 3 Sept 2024
Target answer date: 10 Sept 2024
Answer: 12 Sept 2024 · 9 calendar days after tabling

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Recorded timeline

3 Sept 2024
Question tabled
To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions, what the proposed saving is from the reduction in the franchise of the Winter Fuel Payment.
10 Sept 2024
Target answer date
Date supplied by the official written-questions record.
12 Sept 2024
Answer published
The savings were estimated in Fixing the Foundations as Annually Managed Expenditure (AME) Winter Fuel Payments (WFP) savings of £1.4bn, for 2024/2025, for Great Britain. These included an assumption about increased take-up of Pension Credit which is in l...

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Official data retrieved 27 Sept 2026.

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