Question follow-through · 9177
Winter Fuel Payment
To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions, if she will make an assessment of the potential impact of means-testing the winter fuel payment on trends in the level of excess deaths in winter.
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- Answering body
- Department for Work and Pensions
- Tabled
- 15 Oct 2024
- Target answer date
- 17 Oct 2024
- Answer
- 21 Oct 2024 · 6 calendar days after tabling
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Recorded timeline
15 Oct 2024
Question tabled
To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions, if she will make an assessment of the potential impact of means-testing the winter fuel payment on trends in the level of excess deaths in winter.
17 Oct 2024
Target answer date
Date supplied by the official written-questions record.
21 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. We will do this through protecting the triple lock, keeping energy bills low through our Warm ...
Official data retrieved 27 Sept 2026.
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