Question follow-through · 74255

Winter Fuel Payment

To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions, if she will conduct a lessons learned review from the initial period of the decision to withdraw universal Winter Fuel Payments.

answeredDepartment for Work and Pensions

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Answering body: Department for Work and Pensions
Tabled: 2 Sept 2025
Target answer date: 4 Sept 2025
Answer: 5 Sept 2025 · 3 calendar days after tabling

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Recorded timeline

2 Sept 2025
Question tabled
To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions, if she will conduct a lessons learned review from the initial period of the decision to withdraw universal Winter Fuel Payments.
4 Sept 2025
Target answer date
Date supplied by the official written-questions record.
5 Sept 2025
Answer published
The Government linked eligibility for Winter Fuel Payments to receipt of Pension Credit or certain other benefits for winter 2024/25 to help address immediate fiscal pressures, and to focus them on those with the lowest incomes. From this winter (2025/26)...

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Official data retrieved 28 Sept 2026.

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