Work and Pensions

Monday 10th February 2025 Written Corrections

Winter Fuel Payments: Pensioner Poverty

The following extract is from Work and Pensions questions on 3 February 2025.

[Patrick Spencer]

What assessment she has made of the potential impact of means-testing the winter fuel payment on levels of pensioner poverty.

[Sir Ashley Fox]

What assessment she has made of the potential impact of means-testing the winter fuel payment on levels of pensioner poverty.

[Torsten Bell]

This Government have run the biggest ever take-up campaign on pension credit, which is worth around £400 on average to those eligible.

[Official Report, 3 February 2025; Vol. 761, c. 534.]

Written correction submitted by the Under-Secretary of State for Work and Pensions, the hon. Member for Swansea West (Torsten Bell):

[Torsten Bell]

This Government have run the biggest ever take-up campaign on pension credit, which is worth around £4,200 a year on average to those eligible.