Earlier this week and led by the Labour government, UK parliament voted to restrict eligibility for the Winter Fuel Payment
A pensioner is worried he might not survive the coming months after parliament approved changes to the winter fuel payment . On Tuesday September 10, the House of Commons voted to cut WFP entitlement which now means millions of pensioners are set to miss out on the previously universal benefit. As a result, WFP will only be paid to people claiming Pension Credit or other means-tested benefits.
Earlier this week, reports emerged about Labour's own research from 2017 which found cutting the winter fuel allowance would increase excess deaths by 3,850 that winter. They published their findings in a warning to the then-Tory government, but have faced continued criticism about their apparent u-turn which will see all but the country's poorest pensioners stripped of the winter fuel payment. Arthur said: 'I knew my goose was cooked at that moment.
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