Summary
- Chancellor Rachel Reeves’s planned changes to Winter Fuel Payments may impact over a million pensioners living in “absolute poverty.”
- In the financial year 2022/23, 1.4 million pensioners were considered to be in “absolute poverty” but only 1.2 million were not in receipt of Pension Credit.
- The government is urging affected pensioners to check if they qualify for Pension Credit to potentially receive back the winter fuel allowance.
- Critics argue against scrapping the allowance due to such complications.