Question follow-through · 58326
Winter Fuel Payment: Means-tested Benefits
To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions, whether her Department has made an assessment of the potential merits of using of AI to support its processes for means testing for the winter fuel payment.
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- Answering body
- Department for Work and Pensions
- Tabled
- 9 Jun 2025
- Target answer date
- 11 Jun 2025
- Answer
- 16 Jun 2025 · 7 calendar days after tabling
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Recorded timeline
9 Jun 2025
Question tabled
To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions, whether her Department has made an assessment of the potential merits of using of AI to support its processes for means testing for the winter fuel payment.
11 Jun 2025
Target answer date
Date supplied by the official written-questions record.
16 Jun 2025
Answer published
The Government wants to ensure a wider range of pensioners in England and Wales receive Winter Fuel Payment in future, while recognising public finance constraints and the fact that making payments to the highest income pensioners is hard to justify. From...
Official data retrieved 28 Sept 2026.
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