"Over a million pensioners will continue to receive the winter fuel payment, while many others will also benefit from the £150 warm home discount from October to help with their energy bills over winter. "We are seeing increased demand in pension credit claims and continue to urge...
Age UK said this would be a “partial solution”, but it still wouldn’t help every older person on a low income that the charity is worried about, so further help would also be required for some pensioners who only receive a low proportion of the full state pe...
That gap may partly explain why chancellor Rachel Reeves likely opted to end winter fuel payments - worth up to £300 annually - for around 10 million pensioners not in receipt of means-tested benefits including pension credit. the measure, revealed last month, on the ne...
Age Cymru are warning older people in Wales to sign up for pension credit before the deadline, if they want to receive a Winter fuel payment. They say more than £200 million in pension credit goes unclaimed each year in Wales. With changes to the Winter Fuel Payments, a...
GBP7m heating help for pensioners Extra measures should ease backlog before winter bitesWILLIAM TINNING
Maintaining the Triple Lock earlier this year gives around 12 million pensioners the largest ever cash increase to the State Pension. This year’s maintenance loan increase in England was 2.3 per cent. The Household Support Fund has been extended for another year in England to help families with...
Labour Party conference: PM to face more pressure over winter-fuel payments Sun 22 Sept 10.06pm•Labour is braced for a clash with the unions over its plans to limit winter fuel payments to only the poorest pensioners. Share this video ...
State Pensionersare poised for a financial uplift as they will automatically receive a complimentary £150 in their bank accounts. The Warm Home Discount scheme, initiated by theGovernmentin April 2011, is designed to support those on low incomes or pensions in England, Scotland, and Wales with...
funding package for Welsh councils of ￡3~m over three years, to help them widen the focus of their take-up campaigns to pensioners and young families... S Cumberbatch - 《Municipal Engineering Cleansing & Public Health》 被引量: 0发表: 2008年 ...
Despite being the cause of death of quite a few pensioners at New Year’s, mochi— a rice cake made from pounding glutinous rice — is a tradition that will live on for the foreseeable future. You might be lucky enough to see mochi-pounding festivals at community events, or see boxed of...