Cost of Living: Pensioners

(asked on 1st February 2022) - View Source

Question to the Department for Work and Pensions:

To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions, what steps she is taking with the Chancellor of the Exchequer to help support pensioners with increases in the cost of living.


Answered by
Guy Opperman Portrait
Guy Opperman
Parliamentary Under-Secretary (Department for Transport)
This question was answered on 7th February 2022

This year we will spend over £129 billion on the State Pension and benefits for pensioners in Great Britain, we have never paid our pensioners more.

This includes:

  • £5 billion on Pension Credit.

  • £2 billion on Winter Fuel Payments.

  • £125,000 on Cold Weather Payments to pensioners so far this winter.

  • £144 million on Warm Home Discount to pensioners in receipt of pension credit guarantee credit.
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