Universal Credit<\/a>, which makes them eligible for the Winter Fuel Payment. Responding to the reversal, one social media user wrote: “Restore the WFA, drop the latest PIP changes, extend the child benefit beyond 2 children and then for goodness sake will someone in government deal with the elephant in the room, social care.”<\/p>\nA second said: “It really has come to something, hasn’t it Jon Trickett, that the British public are having to educate a Labour Prime Minister on what constitutes poverty in the UK.<\/p>\n
“That Keir Starmer is seemingly incapable of recognising this, is incapable of working this out for himself. The Winter Fuel Allowance was \u00a3200 in 2000\/01. It is still \u00a3200 today, 25 years later. Whilst UK state pension value is by far the lowest in developed European countries<\/p>\n
“That in the UK we pay amongst the highest energy costs of developed nations. That our energy costs have more than doubled since 2021\/22. That we are still living in a cost of living crisis.<\/p>\n
“That the Conservatives acknowledged this and gave 2022\/2023 and 2023\/2024. Additional “Pensioner Cost of Living Payments” of \u00a3150 or \u00a3300 alongside the regular Winter Fuel Payment.’ But no .. Keir Starmer the British Labour Prime Minister sees no poverty, hears no poverty, speaks not of poverty.<\/p>\n
“Whilst he, Starmer, penalises economically vulnerable pensioners, and economically vulnerable disabled people receiving PIP, and sick people receiving the Health Element of Universal Credit.<\/p>\n
“This beggars belief. .. There simply are no words to describe how concerning, how frighteningly scary Keir Starmers lack of insight is.”<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"A Department for Work and Pensions ( DWP ) loophole can be utilised by older UK households ahead…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":123954,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3093],"tags":[51,1267,474,2499,16,15],"class_list":{"0":"post-123953","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-personal-finance","8":"tag-business","9":"tag-dwp","10":"tag-finance","11":"tag-personal-finance","12":"tag-uk","13":"tag-united-kingdom"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/pubeurope.com\/@uk\/114554449760374873","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/123953","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=123953"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/123953\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/123954"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=123953"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=123953"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=123953"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}
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A Department for Work and Pensions ( DWP ) loophole can be utilised by older UK households ahead of the Labour Party u-turn.<\/p>\n