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Question follow-through · 24304

Pension Credit: Winter Fuel Payment

To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions, if she will make an estimate of the number of pensioners earning less than the Pension Credit threshold who did not receive winter fuel payment in winter 2024-25.

answeredDepartment for Work and Pensions

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Answering body
Department for Work and Pensions
Tabled
15 Jan 2025
Target answer date
17 Jan 2025
Answer
21 Jan 2025 · 6 calendar days after tabling

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Recorded timeline

  1. 15 Jan 2025

    Question tabled

    To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions, if she will make an estimate of the number of pensioners earning less than the Pension Credit threshold who did not receive winter fuel payment in winter 2024-25.

  2. 17 Jan 2025

    Target answer date

    Date supplied by the official written-questions record.

  3. 21 Jan 2025

    Answer published

    The Department does not yet have data on households who did not receive a Winter Fuel Payment in Winter 2024/25. The latest data on Winter Fuel Payment caseload is available here: Winter Fuel Payment statistics for winter 2023 to 2024 - GOV.UK.

Open official record

Official data retrieved 28 Sept 2026.

Later records

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