Two pensioners are taking the government to court after chancellor Rachel Reeves removed the heating cash from 10 million state pensioners
Two Scottish pensioners have been given permission to proceed with their legal challenge against the UK and Scottish and governments’ decision to cut the winter fuel payment. The decision by the Court of Session means the challenge, brought by Peter and Florence Fanning, of Coatbridge, North Lanarkshire, will now proceed to a procedural hearing in December ahead of a full “substantive” hearing in January.
From this winter, only people on pension credit or certain other benefits will receive the winter fuel payments, worth up to £300, while about 10 million others are set to be stripped of the allowance. The Government has insisted the move is necessary to help fill a “£22 billion black hole” in the public finances inherited from the Tory government.
A freedom of information request revealed an abridged version of such an assessment had been carried out by the Department for Work and Pensions , with the UK Government arguing a full study was not required. “The Scottish Government should have been standing up for Scotland’s pensioners against Westminster cuts, instead they will now be standing shoulder to shoulder with the UK Labour Government in court against the pensioners of Scotland.”
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