Winter Fuel Payment
The question
To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions, what estimate she has made of the (a) proportion and (b) value of savings from limiting entitlement to Winter Fuel Payments by pensioner income decile.
Answered by Emma Reynolds
Pension Credit recipients can be used as an indicator of those pensioners who will be eligible for Winter Fuel Payments following the change to Winter Fuel Payment entitlement. Information on pensioners’ income bands based on whether they are in receipt of Pension Credit is available via published HBAI (Households below average income) statistics.
The statistics can be found using: Households below average income: for financial years ending 1995 to 2023 - GOV.UK (www.gov.uk) (File name: pensioners-hbai-detailed-breakdown-2022-23-tables, Table name: Table 6.2db (BHC): Quintile distribution of income for pensioners3 by various family and household characteristics, United Kingdom).
The value of savings by income band is not available.
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