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Starmer announces U-turn on winter fuel payment cuts
- On May 21, 2025, Prime Minister Keir Starmer announced in Parliament a partial reversal of policy to allow a larger number of pensioners to qualify for the Winter Fuel Payment.
- This reversal followed criticisms of previous means-testing cuts blamed for Labour’s poor local election results and senior citizens’ concerns since last July.
- Communities Minister Gordon Lyons welcomed the government’s admission of error but urged full reinstatement of the universal Winter Fuel Payment to protect all pensioners.
- Starmer acknowledged that many individuals, pensioners among them, continue to experience difficulties due to the cost-of-living challenges and assured that affordability will be a key consideration in decisions made during an upcoming fiscal event.
- The announcement signals a policy shift aiming to ease pressure on pensioners while maintaining welfare reforms intended to reduce costs sustainably over time.
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Starmer’s winter fuel allowance ‘U-turn’ sets him on a tricky path with backbenchers and voters
Turning things around? House of Commons/Flickr, CC BY-NC-NDThe U-turn is a long and, depending on your point of view, honourable or dishonourable tradition in British politics. Now Keir Starmer has been accused of following this tradition after heavily hinting the UK government is reconsidering last year’s decision to deny the winter fuel allowance to millions of pensioners. As a reminder, the winter fuel payment is a lump sum of £200 or £300 pa…
Leftist PM Starmer Forced To Walk Back Winter Fuel Payment Cut for Pensioners After Major Blowback From Voters and Internal Labour Party Rebellion
If you lived all your life on the left, and built a career as a politician in the Labour party, always pretending to defend the poor citizens of your Kingdom, perhaps once you attained your dreamed premiership you should not start by cutting winter fuel payments for the struggling elderly while at the same time freeing dangerous criminals from jail to make up room.
Political opinion: Conservative MP Blake Stephenson welcomes Government’s Winter Fuel Payments u-turn
Blake Stephenson, the MP for Mid Bedfordshire, has welcomed a u-turn by the Prime Minister on Winter Fuel Payments and thanked everyone on all sides for their tireless campaigning, including the wonderful charity AgeUK, with whom Blake has been working closely.
It now takes 87 days to get pension credit after winter fuel payment cut
Processing times for pension credit applications soared to an average of 87 working days at the end of last year following cuts to the winter fuel payment, well above the Government’s 50-working-day target, new figures show.The Department for Work and Pensions (DWP) failed to meet its 50-day target for nine consecutive weeks between October and December last year, peaking at an average of 87 days in mid-December, according to figures from the de…
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