Question follow-through · 7680
Winter Fuel Payment: War Widow(er)s
To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions, if she will make an assessment of the potential merits of exempting war (a) widows and (b) widowers from changes to the eligibility criteria for the Winter Fuel Payment.
About this written question
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- Answering body
- Department for Work and Pensions
- Tabled
- 7 Oct 2024
- Target answer date
- 9 Oct 2024
- Answer
- 16 Oct 2024 · 9 calendar days after tabling
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Votes on this topic
- Opposition Day Motion: Defence spending and readiness - Prime Minister's Amendment · 23 Jun 2026
- Opposition day: Defence spending and readiness · 23 Jun 2026
- Armed Forces Bill Report Stage: Amendment 11 · 22 Jun 2026
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Recorded timeline
7 Oct 2024
Question tabled
To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions, if she will make an assessment of the potential merits of exempting war (a) widows and (b) widowers from changes to the eligibility criteria for the Winter Fuel Payment.
9 Oct 2024
Target answer date
Date supplied by the official written-questions record.
16 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. Given the substantial pressures faced by the public finances this year and next, the Governmen...
Official data retrieved 27 Sept 2026.
Later records
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