{"id":319073,"date":"2025-08-05T06:04:21","date_gmt":"2025-08-05T06:04:21","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/319073\/"},"modified":"2025-08-05T06:04:21","modified_gmt":"2025-08-05T06:04:21","slug":"all-state-pensioners-born-before-1959-to-get-200-dwp-payments","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/319073\/","title":{"rendered":"All state pensioners born before 1959 to get \u00a3200 DWP payments"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The Government has confirmed details of who will be getting the support<img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/08\/0_pension_.jpg\" alt=\"58,800 more households have been awarded the benefit since last summer, new DWP stats show.\" loading=\"eager\"  \/>Cash will be arriving in millions of bank accounts.<\/p>\n<p class=\"Paragraph_paragraph-text__PVKlh \">Payments worth at least \u00a3200 will be dropping into bank accounts of millions of pensioners later this year.<\/p>\n<p class=\"Paragraph_paragraph-text__PVKlh \">It follows changes to eligibility rules for Winter Fuel Payments.<\/p>\n<p class=\"Paragraph_paragraph-text__PVKlh \">The Government has confirmed details on how the winter 2025 scheme will work.<\/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\/state-pensioners-born-before-1959-32179978\" target=\"_self\" aria-label=\"\" tabindex=\"0\" rel=\"noopener\">State pensioners born before 1959 urged to check bank accounts in August<\/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 \">The payments will initially be paid to all pensioners.<\/p>\n<p class=\"Paragraph_paragraph-text__PVKlh \">However, only those with incomes under \u00a335,000 will actually benefit from the support.<\/p>\n<p class=\"Paragraph_paragraph-text__PVKlh \">Those over that threshold will see the payments clawed back by HMRC.<\/p>\n<p class=\"Paragraph_paragraph-text__PVKlh \">The winter payments will be arriving from November.<\/p>\n<p class=\"Paragraph_paragraph-text__PVKlh \">The money should arrive in bank accounts automatically later this year, and people don&#8217;t need to do anything to claim it.<\/p>\n<p class=\"Paragraph_paragraph-text__PVKlh \">Millions more will qualify this year following more changes to qualifying rules.<\/p>\n<p>Breaking news straight to your WhatsApp<\/p>\n<p class=\"Paragraph_paragraph-text__PVKlh \">BirminghamLive readers get the very latest breaking news through <a class=\"TextLink_text-link__dBSS0 TextLink_enabled__dJF3l\" href=\"https:\/\/chat.whatsapp.com\/FJKVhwxllixI0DiCj9e2sk\" target=\"\" aria-label=\"\" tabindex=\"0\" rel=\"noopener\">our WhatsApp community<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p class=\"Paragraph_paragraph-text__PVKlh \">All you have to do is <a class=\"TextLink_text-link__dBSS0 TextLink_enabled__dJF3l\" href=\"https:\/\/chat.whatsapp.com\/FJKVhwxllixI0DiCj9e2sk\" target=\"\" aria-label=\"\" tabindex=\"0\" rel=\"noopener\">click this link<\/a> and select &#8216;Join Chat&#8217; and you are in.<\/p>\n<p class=\"Paragraph_paragraph-text__PVKlh \">We also treat our community members to special offers, promotions, and adverts from us and our partners. If you don\u2019t like our community, you can check out any time you like by selecting &#8216;exit group&#8217;.<\/p>\n<p class=\"Paragraph_paragraph-text__PVKlh \"><a class=\"TextLink_text-link__dBSS0 TextLink_enabled__dJF3l\" href=\"https:\/\/chat.whatsapp.com\/FJKVhwxllixI0DiCj9e2sk\" target=\"\" aria-label=\"\" tabindex=\"0\" rel=\"noopener\">CLICK HERE TO JOIN<\/a><\/p>\n<p class=\"Paragraph_paragraph-text__PVKlh \">The Government was forced into a U-turn following anger over how the scheme was run last year.<\/p>\n<p class=\"Paragraph_paragraph-text__PVKlh \">While the winter allowance won&#8217;t be universal, it will include all pensioners generally classed as low-income and the new rules appear to have satisfied most critics.<\/p>\n<p class=\"Paragraph_paragraph-text__PVKlh \">That means millions who didn&#8217;t get the payments in 2024 can look forward to the bonus this year.<\/p>\n<p class=\"Paragraph_paragraph-text__PVKlh \">Winter Fuel Payments are worth \u00a3200 for those aged under 80 and \u00a3300 for those over 80.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"The Government has confirmed details of who will be getting the supportCash will be arriving in millions of&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":319074,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3093],"tags":[51,1267,474,2074,2499,16,15,961],"class_list":{"0":"post-319073","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-pension","12":"tag-personal-finance","13":"tag-uk","14":"tag-united-kingdom","15":"tag-your-money"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/pubeurope.com\/@uk\/114974652146353396","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/319073","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=319073"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/319073\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/319074"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=319073"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=319073"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=319073"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}