Winter Fuel Payment: Fraud

(asked on 29th October 2025) - View Source

Question to the Department for Work and Pensions:

To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions, what information his Department holds on the number of reported incidents of winter fuel payment-related scams in each of the past five years.


Answered by
Torsten Bell Portrait
Torsten Bell
Parliamentary Secretary (HM Treasury)
This question was answered on 6th November 2025

The Department does not hold a formal record of the number of reported winter fuel payment-related scams over the past five years.

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