Winter fuel payments will be scrapped for millions of pensioners as part of Chancellor Rachel Reeves' cuts to fill a 'black hole' in public finances.
Winter fuel payments will be scrapped for millions of pensioners as part of Chancellor Rachel Reeves' cuts to fill a "black hole" in public finances. Rachel Reeves said: "Today I'm making the difficult decision that those not in receipt of pension credit or certain other means-tested benefits will no longer receive the winter fuel payment from this year onwards.
"I have to tell the House that the budget will involve taking difficult decisions to meet our fiscal rules across spending, welfare and tax. " still don't get it, do they? Parties in Downing Street, crashing the economy, gambling on the election, party before country every single time. "It will be a budget to fix the foundations of our economy and it will be a budget built on the principles that this new Government was elected on.
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