Question follow-through · 4576
Winter Fuel Payment
To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions, if she will make an equalities impact assessment of the decision to means-test the Winter Fuel Payment.
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- Answering body
- Department for Work and Pensions
- Tabled
- 6 Sept 2024
- Target answer date
- 10 Sept 2024
- Answer
- 11 Sept 2024 · 5 calendar days after tabling
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Recorded timeline
6 Sept 2024
Question tabled
To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions, if she will make an equalities impact assessment of the decision to means-test the Winter Fuel Payment.
10 Sept 2024
Target answer date
Date supplied by the official written-questions record.
11 Sept 2024
Answer published
The Regulations will come into force on 16 September, the first day of the Winter Fuel Payment qualifying week. In making her decision on Winter Fuel Payment eligibility, the Secretary of State had regard to the equality analysis in line with the Public S...
Official data retrieved 27 Sept 2026.
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