MPs to vote on cutting winter fuel payment for pensioners
Monday, 9 September 2024 MPs will vote later on a controversial plan by the new government to remove the winter fuel payment from the majority of pensioners.
Shadow Chief Secretary to the Treasury Laura Trott says the government may have won the vote to remove Winter Fuel Allowance for some pensioners but “comprehensively” lost the argument. The plan to means test the payment cleared the Commons on Tuesday with just one Labour rebel voting against it...
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Monday, 9 September 2024
MPs will vote later on a controversial plan by the new government to remove the winter fuel payment from the majority of pensioners.
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