{"id":153595,"date":"2025-06-03T01:53:14","date_gmt":"2025-06-03T01:53:14","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/153595\/"},"modified":"2025-06-03T01:53:14","modified_gmt":"2025-06-03T01:53:14","slug":"pensioners-who-lost-winter-fuel-payments-sent-new-300-update","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/153595\/","title":{"rendered":"Pensioners who lost Winter Fuel Payments sent new \u00a3300 update"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The Government has confirmed changes to this year&#8217;s scheme<img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/05\/1748049250_997_0_statepensioners1.jpg\" alt=\"DWP breaks silence over hiking state pension 25p age addition to \u00a3166\" loading=\"eager\"  \/>More pensioners are expected to get winter payments this year.<\/p>\n<p class=\"Paragraph_paragraph-text__PVKlh \">Some pensioners who lost their Winter Fuel Payments last year could get the money, worth up to \u00a3300, this winter under a rule change.<\/p>\n<p class=\"Paragraph_paragraph-text__PVKlh \">The winter allowance was scrapped for millions of older people last year by the new Labour Government.<\/p>\n<p class=\"Paragraph_paragraph-text__PVKlh \">But a widespread backlash over the way eligibility was determined has led to a rethink for winter 2025\/26.<\/p>\n<p class=\"Paragraph_paragraph-text__PVKlh \"><strong class=\"Strong_strong__e2x35\">READ MORE: <a class=\"TextLink_text-link__dBSS0 TextLink_enabled__dJF3l\" href=\"https:\/\/www.birminghammail.co.uk\/news\/cost-of-living\/exact-date-200-cost-living-31731057\" target=\"_self\" aria-label=\"\" tabindex=\"0\" rel=\"noopener\">Exact date \u00a3200 cost of living payment will benefit Midland households<\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n<p class=\"Paragraph_paragraph-text__PVKlh \"><a class=\"TextLink_text-link__dBSS0 TextLink_enabled__dJF3l\" href=\"https:\/\/www.birminghammail.co.uk\/newsletter-preference-centre\/?view=Solus&amp;mailingListId=3d4ffd46-bda0-4cd0-b915-62c991cdadff&amp;utm_source=solusarticle\" target=\"_blank\" aria-label=\"[object Object]Link opens in a new tab.\" tabindex=\"0\" rel=\"noopener\"><strong class=\"Strong_strong__e2x35\">Get our best money saving tips and hacks by signing up to our newsletter<\/strong><\/a><\/p>\n<p class=\"Paragraph_paragraph-text__PVKlh \">It now looks like some people who lost the support in 2024 will get it this winter.<\/p>\n<p class=\"Paragraph_paragraph-text__PVKlh \">Who will qualify under the changes has yet to be announced, but there have suggestions it could be linked to council tax bands.<\/p>\n<p class=\"Paragraph_paragraph-text__PVKlh \">Last year&#8217;s debacle resulted in millions of low-income pensioners having the winter fuel allowance taken away, leaving them up to \u00a3300 worse off, as the worst-off struggle to heat their homes.<\/p>\n<p class=\"Paragraph_paragraph-text__PVKlh \">Prime Minister Keir Starmer has now confirmed a U-turn amid plummeting poll ratings.<\/p>\n<p class=\"Paragraph_paragraph-text__PVKlh \">While wealthy pensioners won&#8217;t get the allowance, more on low incomes can expect to receive it.<\/p>\n<p class=\"Paragraph_paragraph-text__PVKlh \">Full eligibility details are expected to be set out over the coming weeks and months.<\/p>\n<p class=\"Paragraph_paragraph-text__PVKlh \">Starmer said last month: &#8220;I recognise people are still feeling the pressure of the cost of living crisis, including pensioners.<\/p>\n<p class=\"Paragraph_paragraph-text__PVKlh \">&#8220;And as the economy improves we want to make sure people feel those improvements as their lives go forward.<\/p>\n<p class=\"Paragraph_paragraph-text__PVKlh \">&#8220;And that is why we want to ensure that as we go forward more pensioners are eligible for Winter Fuel Payments.<\/p>\n<p class=\"Paragraph_paragraph-text__PVKlh \">&#8220;As you would expect, we will only make decisions we can afford. That is why we will look at that as part of a fiscal event.&#8221;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"The Government has confirmed changes to this year&#8217;s schemeMore pensioners are expected to get winter payments this year.&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":126701,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3093],"tags":[51,1267,474,807,528,2074,2499,285,16,15,961],"class_list":{"0":"post-153595","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-keir-starmer","12":"tag-labour-party","13":"tag-pension","14":"tag-personal-finance","15":"tag-politics","16":"tag-uk","17":"tag-united-kingdom","18":"tag-your-money"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/pubeurope.com\/@uk\/114616939574581145","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/153595","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=153595"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/153595\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/126701"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=153595"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=153595"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=153595"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}