Winter Fuel Payment
(asked on 2nd September 2022) - View Source
Question to the Department for Work and Pensions:
To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions, what recent assessment she has made of the potential merits of revising the eligibility date of 25 September 1956 to qualify for the Winter Fuel Payment.
This question was answered on 17th September 2022
There are no plans to change the qualifying criteria for Winter Fuel Payments at this time.
Winter fuel payments are an age-related payment made to those who have reached state pension age.
For winter 2022/23 a person has to have reached State Pension age (which means a person must be born on or before 25 September 1956) on or before the end of the September qualifying week.