Winter Fuel Payment
The question
To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions, how many people are eligible for the Winter Fuel Payment in each Parliamentary constituency; and what estimate she has made of the number of people that will be eligible after the proposed means testing for that payment.
Answered by Emma Reynolds
Annual statistics relating to Winter Fuel Payment recipients are routinely published. The number of recipients within each parliamentary constituency is available at the following link: |
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1.2 million households will be eligible for Winter Fuel Payments in England and 100,000 households in Wales post policy change (based on the number of current Pension Credit recipients). Source: Stat-Xplore - Table View (dwp.gov.uk). Winter Fuel Payments in Scotland are a matter for the Scottish Government.
Please note that Pension Credit claimants are the majority of those that will be eligible for Winter Fuel Payments, not all.
Also, the published Pension Credit figures refer to households, so the number of individuals will be higher (i.e. taking account of households where it is a couple claiming Pension Credit).
Furthermore, the above does not take into account any potential increase in Pension Credit take-up we might see as a result of the policy.
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