Councillors in Labour-dominated Telford have voted to lobby their own party in government over the controversial cut to the winter fuel allowance.
Pensioners are no longer entitled to the age related payment of up to £300 per year unless they receive certain benefits, including Pension Credit.
Labour members proposed an amendment to the Tory motion which took out criticisms of the governing party as “cruel” and replaced them with attacks on theBut in the final motion, accepted by the council, the group agreed that the council will write to the Chancellor to “demand this decision is reversed as soon as reasonably possible.”
But they added that any re-instated benefit should not go to ‘millionaire pensioners or those who live abroad.”
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