Question follow-through · 18407
Winter Fuel Payment: Poverty
To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions, what assessment he has made of the potential impact of recent changes to the eligibility criteria for the Winter Fuel Payment on trends in the level of pensioners living in (a) relative and (b) absolute
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- Answering body
- Department for Work and Pensions
- Tabled
- 6 Dec 2024
- Target answer date
- 10 Dec 2024
- Answer
- 18 Dec 2024 · 12 calendar days after tabling
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Recorded timeline
6 Dec 2024
Question tabled
To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions, what assessment he has made of the potential impact of recent changes to the eligibility criteria for the Winter Fuel Payment on trends in the level of pensioners living in (a) relative and (b) absolute
10 Dec 2024
Target answer date
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18 Dec 2024
Answer published
On 19 November, Secretary of State wrote to the Work and Pensions Select Committee to share internal government modelling produced by the Department outlining estimates of the number of pensioners estimated to move into poverty as a result of the policy c...
Official data retrieved 27 Sept 2026.
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