Question follow-through · 4296
State Retirement Pensions and Winter Fuel Payment
To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions, if she will make an estimate of the number of people who will be in receipt of the Winter Fuel Payment by constituency from 1 April 2025; and what the total value of the (a) Winter Fuel Payment and (b)
About this written question
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- Answering body
- Department for Work and Pensions
- Tabled
- 4 Sept 2024
- Target answer date
- 9 Sept 2024
- Answer
- 12 Sept 2024 · 8 calendar days after tabling
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Recorded timeline
4 Sept 2024
Question tabled
To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions, if she will make an estimate of the number of people who will be in receipt of the Winter Fuel Payment by constituency from 1 April 2025; and what the total value of the (a) Winter Fuel Payment and (b)
9 Sept 2024
Target answer date
Date supplied by the official written-questions record.
12 Sept 2024
Answer published
We cannot estimate the number of people who will be in receipt of the Winter Fuel Payment by constituency from 1 April 2025. The Secretary of State will undertake her annual statutory review of benefits and State Pensions for the next financial year ahead...
Official data retrieved 27 Sept 2026.
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