Cost of Living Payments: Pensioners

(asked on 28th October 2022) - View Source

Question to the Department for Work and Pensions:

To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions, whether his Department has made a recent assessment of the potential merits of extending the extra cost of living payment for pensioners that receive a winter fuel payment beyond 2023.


Answered by
Laura Trott Portrait
Laura Trott
Shadow Chief Secretary to the Treasury
This question was answered on 1st November 2022

Pensioner households will receive a one-off pensioner Cost-of-Living payment in 2022/23, worth £300. This will be paid in November or December as a top up with the Winter Fuel Payment. Therefore, a household with someone of State Pension age will receive £500 and a household with someone aged 80 or over will receive £600.

No decisions have been taken regarding 2023/24.

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