Question follow-through · 9355

Winter Fuel Payment

To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions, whether she has made an assessment of the potential impact of the decision to means test the winter fuel payment on the expected number of excess deaths in winter 2024-25.

answeredDepartment for Work and Pensions

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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, whether she has made an assessment of the potential impact of the decision to means test the winter fuel payment on the expected number of excess deaths in winter 2024-25.
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 ...

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