Question follow-through · 4900
Winter Fuel Payment: South West Devon
To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions, if she will make an estimate of the number of pensioners who will be affected by proposed changes to the eligibility criteria for the Winter Fuel Payment in South West Devon constituency.
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- Answering body
- Department for Work and Pensions
- Tabled
- 9 Sept 2024
- Target answer date
- 11 Sept 2024
- Answer
- 18 Sept 2024 · 9 calendar days after tabling
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Recorded timeline
9 Sept 2024
Question tabled
To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions, if she will make an estimate of the number of pensioners who will be affected by proposed changes to the eligibility criteria for the Winter Fuel Payment in South West Devon constituency.
11 Sept 2024
Target answer date
Date supplied by the official written-questions record.
18 Sept 2024
Answer published
The Pension Credit data that is used is based on the 2010 Westminster Parliamentary constituencies, not 2024, in order to be comparable with the Winter Fuel Payments statistics. It is estimated that around 20,000 people in South West Devon constituency wi...
Official data retrieved 27 Sept 2026.
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