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Starmer announces U-turn on winter fuel payment cuts
- Prime Minister Keir Starmer announced on May 21, 2025, plans in Parliament to expand eligibility for Winter Fuel Payments to more pensioners.
- This announcement follows criticism and poor local election results linked to prior Labour government cuts to Winter Fuel Payment eligibility introduced last July.
- Communities Minister Gordon Lyons approved the U-turn but insisted only a full reinstatement of universal payments can fully correct the initial cuts.
- Starmer recognised the ongoing financial challenges faced by pensioners and expressed a commitment to increasing the number of pensioners who qualify for winter fuel payments in the future.
- While the government plans to review changes at the upcoming fiscal event, critics argue current welfare reforms risk harming vulnerable groups despite efforts to reduce the welfare bill.
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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…
Robert Jenrick has no answer when pushed on Tory winter fuel payments policy
Robert Jenrick had no response when he was asked what the Tory Party’s policy on winter fuel payments would be during a fiery exchange on Sky News. This week, Keir Starmer announced a U-turn on Labour’s controversial cuts to winter fuel payment. During prime minister’s questions on Wednesday, the PM said his government would look at widening eligibility “as the economy improves”. This came after reports that Starmer was considering reversing par…
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