17 h. ago Older people urged to claim Pension Credit before any Winter Fuel Payment changes

An announcement on Winter Fuel Payment eligibility changes is not expected until the Autumn Budget.

Economics

38 h. ago Will you get YOUR winter fuel payment back? Government rethinks scrapping of popular benefit

The Government has U-turned on its axing of Winter Fuel Payments for most pensioners, but left everyone hanging on how or when it intends to implement this plan.

Politics

41 h. ago Martin Lewis repeats call to pay Winter Fuel Payment to every pensioner on a low income

The consumer champion also suggested older people on Council Tax bands A to C should be eligible.

Economics

42 h. ago How DWP winter fuel payment could be paid to more pensioners after Keir Starmer U

Earlier this week, the Prime Minister announced a change in his stance on eligibility for the benefit

Economics

50 h. ago Martin Lewis tells Labour there are 'two main problems' with Winter Fuel Payment plans

The U-turn on the Winter Fuel Payment cuts will have to overcome two major issues, Martin Lewis has warned

Politics

52 h. ago Reeves reeling from triple blow: On humiliating day for Chancellor, PM U

The Chancellor was out of the country at a G7 meeting in Canada as the Prime Minister announced a screeching reverse on her hated decision to axe the winter fuel payment for 10 million pensioners.

Politics

55 h. ago Winter fuel payment cuts were a panic measure finally put right

Editorial: The move inadvertently caused maximum political damage to Labour – now, Keir Starmer’s surprise U-turn is an encouraging sign his administration has learnt from its mistakes

Politics

57 h. ago Stormont Communities Minister calls for full restoration of winter fuel payment

Gordon Lyons welcomed the statement by Sir Keir Starmer on Wednesday but said it did not go far enough.

Politics

59 h. ago How might Starmer make more pensioners eligible for the winter fuel payment?

There are several options for how the Government could go about it.

Economics

63 h. ago DWP Winter Fuel Payments explained and what Keir Starmer has just announced

Last year, the Labour government means-tested the Winter Fuel Payment which meant that only certain pensioners over the age of 66 would receive the £300 payment, rather than all pensioners

Politics

64 h. ago Starmer to look at making more pensioners eligible for winter fuel allowance

The Prime Minister has faced pressure to change course over the squeeze on benefits.

Politics

64 h. ago Lindsay Hoyle snaps at disruptive MPs in heated winter fuel payments debate: ‘Are you going to behave?’

Sir Lindsey Hoyle lashed out at unruly MPs during Prime Minister’s Questions on Wednesday (21 May), asking them to behave or leave the Commons.

Politics

64 h. ago Winter fuel allowance: Sir Keir Starmer wants more pensioners to be eligible in payment axe U

A reversal of the UK Labour government’s position on winter fuel payment cuts has been foreshadowed by Sir Keir Starmer at Prime Minister’s Questions.

Economics

64 h. ago Keir Starmer: I want to make more pensioners eligible for winter fuel payments

Sir Keir said the Government would act after first needing to ‘stabilise the economy with tough decisions’.

Economics

67 h. ago Diane Abbott warns Keir Starmer winter fuel payment like Thatcher's poll tax and 'she was gone in a year'

The veteran Labour MP strongly criticised the controversial policy which the Government is believed to now be reconsidering

Events

67 h. ago UK politics live: Reeves defends ‘necessary’ winter fuel payment cuts amid speculation over U

Senior government figures are in talks about whether to U-turn on the chancellor’s winter fuel cuts within weeks

Politics

3 d. ago Ministers in talks over possibility of ‘reversing winter fuel payment cuts’

The government has faced mounting calls to reverse the winter fuel cuts

Politics

4 d. ago Starmer and his allies spent so long attacking Labour’s left, they forgot how to govern | Owen Jones

Rehashing 20-year-old Blairite ideas that were stale then will inspire nobody. Britain is crying out for bold, transformative policy-makingJust why has Keir Starmer’s government proved such a catastrophe? This is a question that must be posed to his cheerleaders, or at least those who were at one time cheerleaders: the road from the last general election is lined with silently discarded pompoms. The idea here is not to rub their faces in a political project that is now both electorally toxic and morally bankrupt, but to determine what happens next.First off, the failure should be considered absolute. It is projected that a Labour government will drive more than a million Britons into – or more deeply into – poverty through an assault on disability benefits. The same government imposed hardship on many pensioners by stripping away the winter fuel payment, and it refuses to reverse the Tories’ two-child benefit cap, the UK’s biggest single generator of child poverty. Not content with ...

Events

4 d. ago Winter fuel payment Scotland: John Swinney announces date for £100 payment for pensioners

John Swinney has announced a timeline for Scots to get a special universal pension age winter fuel payment.

Economics

5 d. ago Winter fuel payment to be brought back for over one million Scots on St Andrew's Day

EXCLUSIVE: First Minister John Swinney told the Record the new Pension Age Winter Heating Payment will be paid by November 30th.

Economics