Winter fuel payments will be restored this winter, but wealthier pensioners will not get them, ministers have said.
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Rachel Reeves, the chancellor, promised that “more people will get winter fuel payments”, and said details would be set out soon.
She said there would still be a “means test” but pledged to introduce it in time for this winter, despite concern pallavolo that ageing government computer systems would struggle to adapt thresholds in time.
Torsten Bell, the the terminal list season 2 pensions minister, ruled out restoring universal payments to all pensioners. “Most people — 95 per cent of people — agree that it’s not a good idea that we have a system paying a few hundred pounds to millionaires. And so we’re not going to be continuing with that,” he told the work and pensions committee.
“Is there any prospect of a universal winter fuel payment? The answer is no.”
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