Question follow-through · 15290
Winter Fuel Payment: Terminal Illnesses
To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions, if she will make an assessment of the potential merits of making people with less than 12 months to live to automatically eligible for the Winter Fuel Payment.
About this written question
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- Answering body
- Department for Work and Pensions
- Tabled
- 20 Nov 2024
- Target answer date
- 25 Nov 2024
- Answer
- 28 Nov 2024 · 8 calendar days after tabling
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Recorded timeline
20 Nov 2024
Question tabled
To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions, if she will make an assessment of the potential merits of making people with less than 12 months to live to automatically eligible for the Winter Fuel Payment.
25 Nov 2024
Target answer date
Date supplied by the official written-questions record.
28 Nov 2024
Answer published
This Government remains completely committed to supporting pensioners and giving them the dignity and security they deserve in retirement.Linking Winter Fuel eligibility to Pension Credit and other means tested benefits for pensioners, ensures the least w...
Official data retrieved 27 Sept 2026.
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