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Findlay urges Sarwar to back winter fuel payment U-turn

Scottish Conservative leader Russell Findlay has urged his Labour counterpart to back a U-turn on the winter fuel payment ahead of the UK Budget next week. The UK Government announced this summer that the benefit provided to pensioners would be ...

24 Oct 2024 at 12:59

Starmer defends winter fuel payment cuts amid ‘health emergency’ warning

Sir Keir Starmer has defended stopping all pensioners receiving the winter fuel payment, amid warnings it could create a “public health emergency”. The Prime Minister used a speech in Downing Street’s rose garden to claim he “didn’t want to ...

27 Aug 2024 at 12:43

Trains cancelled and snow warnings issued as cold snap settles across the UK

Trains cancelled, snow warnings issued as cold snap settles across the UK

Motorists in England’s north have been put on notice and train services cancelled after severe weather warnings were issued across the UK. The Met Office issued three yellow weather alerts for snow and ice covering the Midlands, northern ...

19 Nov 2024 at 07:23

Starmer insists ‘tough decision’ on limiting winter fuel allowance is necessary

Limiting winter fuel allowance to the pensioners most in need is a “tough decision” aimed at improving living standards, Sir Keir Starmer said as another of his MPs said they would not back the move. The Prime Minister insisted the plan ...

07 Sept 2024 at 18:06

Scotland

Starmer must U-turn on ‘damaging’ winter fuel payment cut – Flynn

More than 850,000 pensioners will lose out as a result of the change in eligibility for the winter fuel payment, the SNP has said as it called on the Prime Minister to U-turn on the “damaging plan”. Research from the House of Commons ...

08 Sept 2024 at 12:12

Derry News

Derry and Strabane council support the reinstatement of winter fuel payment at special meeting

Derry City and Strabane District Council has voted unanimously calling for the reinstatement of the Winter Fuel Payment. At a special meeting of council on Tuesday, October 29, People Before Profit Councillor Shaun Harkin proposed ...

31 Oct 2024 at 13:33

Charities warn of impact of cold weather as UK feels ‘first taste of winter’

Charities have warned of the impact of the cold weather on society’s most vulnerable people as the UK experiences what the Met Office has called “the first taste of winter”. The UK Health Security Agency (UKHSA) issued the first ...

19 Nov 2024 at 00:01

Trade union threatens legal action over winter fuel cut

A major trade union has threatened legal action over the Government’s decision to means-test winter fuel payments. Around 10 million pensioners will no longer receive the benefit from this winter after the Government decided to ...

03 Nov 2024 at 15:35

Legal challenge to winter fuel payment cut given green light to proceed

Two Scottish pensioners have been given permission to proceed with their legal challenge against the UK and Scottish and governments’ decision to cut the winter fuel payment. The decision by the Court of Session means the ...

25 Oct 2024 at 19:00

It makes sense to make winter fuel payment change, says Sir Keir Starmer

Sir Keir Starmer has said it “makes sense to make the change” to winter fuel payments, but there were decisions made in the Budget which he would have preferred “not to have had to make”. The Prime Minister spoke to a ...

22 Nov 2024 at 13:47

Martin Lewis apologises for using ‘slightly bad language’ during GMB interview

Martin Lewis has apologised for using “slightly bad language” during an interview with the Culture Secretary about winter fuel payments. The money saving expert was grilling Lisa Nandy on Good Morning Britain on ...

09 Oct 2024 at 13:12

82% of pensioners below or just above poverty line ‘to lose winter fuel payment’

Four in every five pensioners living below or just above the poverty line will lose the winter fuel payment under planned benefit cuts, according to a charity. Age UK said its analysis suggested that 10.7 ...

09 Oct 2024 at 00:01

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