We welcome the Chancellor`s announcement on 9 June that the Winter Fuel Payment will be re-instated to around 9 million pensioners earning below £35,000. This new threshold is 3 times the Pension Credit threshold that was applied last November, and is in line with the average earnings. This is a major U-turn in response to the widespread public anger at the decision taken in July last year, which CSPA has actively opposed with our partner organisations, at meetings with MP`s and at Parliamentary demonstrations. CSPA Standing Up for Pensioners.
In the press….
Sally Tsoukaris, spokesperson for Later Life Ambitions, said: “We are pleased to see that the Government is rethinking its decision to strip over 10 million pensioners of their winter fuel payments.
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