| Heading: |
Winter Fuel Payment |
| Question ID: |
1808757 |
| UIN: |
57051 |
| House: |
Commons |
| Date tabled: |
2025-06-03 |
| Asking Member ID: |
5311 |
| Asking Member display name: |
Harriet Cross
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| Asking Member Twitter reference: |
Harriet Cross
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| Member interest: |
false |
| Question text: |
To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions, how many pensioners in receipt of a Winter Fuel Payment in 2023-24 were no longer eligible in 2024-25. |
| Is named day: |
true |
| Date of holding answer: |
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| Date answered: |
2025-06-09 |
| Date answer corrected: |
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| Is holding answer: |
false |
| Is correcting answer: |
false |
| Answering Member ID: |
5069 |
| Answering Member display name: |
Torsten Bell
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| Answering Member handle: |
TorstenBell
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| Answering Member Twitter reference: |
@TorstenBell
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| Answer text: |
It is estimated that 9.2 million pensioners who received a WFP in 2023/24 were not eligible for a WFP in 2024/25. This estimate was published in the OBR Economic and Fiscal Outlook. |
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| Answering body ID: |
29 |
| Answering body name: |
Department for Work and Pensions |
| Tweeted: |
true |