Pensioners ‘Worried Sick’ Over Winter Fuel Allowance Cuts, MP Warns

Pensioners are “worried sick” that they won’t be able to heat their homes this year, parliamentarians have been told ahead of a Commons vote on winter fuel allowance. From this year, older people in England and Wales who are not in receipt of pension credit or certain other means-tested benefits, will no longer receive the winter fuel payments. The changes were announced by Chancellor Rachel Reeves in July, as she told MPs that a number of spending cuts were unavoidable. Restriction of winter fuel allowance would mean around five in six retirees living below the poverty line will miss out on help paying their winter fuel bills....