Question follow-through · 5759
State Retirement Pensions and Winter Fuel Payment
To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions, what assessment has she made of the financial impact of planned changes to the Winter Fuel Payment on recipients of the old State Pension.
About this written question
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- Answering body
- Department for Work and Pensions
- Tabled
- 12 Sept 2024
- Target answer date
- 8 Oct 2024
- Answer
- 8 Oct 2024 · 26 calendar days after tabling
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Recorded timeline
12 Sept 2024
Question tabled
To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions, what assessment has she made of the financial impact of planned changes to the Winter Fuel Payment on recipients of the old State Pension.
8 Oct 2024
Target answer date
Date supplied by the official written-questions record.
8 Oct 2024
Answer published
This Government is committed to pensioners – everyone in our society, no matter their working history or savings deserves a comfortable and dignified retirement. In making a decision on Winter Fuel Payment eligibility, the Government had regard to an equa...
Official data retrieved 27 Sept 2026.
Later records
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