Question follow-through · 50400
Winter Fuel Payment
To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions, what steps she plans to take to ensure that pensioners who are earning below £11,400 are able to obtain winter fuel allowance.
About this written question
A written question asks a government minister for information in writing. Parliament publishes the question and any answer.
- Answering body
- Department for Work and Pensions
- Tabled
- 6 May 2025
- Target answer date
- 8 May 2025
- Answer
- 14 May 2025 · 8 calendar days after tabling
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Recorded timeline
6 May 2025
Question tabled
To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions, what steps she plans to take to ensure that pensioners who are earning below £11,400 are able to obtain winter fuel allowance.
8 May 2025
Target answer date
Date supplied by the official written-questions record.
14 May 2025
Answer published
Pension Credit provides extra money to help with living costs for people over State Pension age and on a low income. The Guarantee Credit part of Pension Credit tops up a person’s other income and also prompts recipients to receive a Winter Fuel Payment t...
Official data retrieved 28 Sept 2026.
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