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Energy bills

11 September 2024

  • Senior Man Trying To Keep Warm

    Triple lock won’t save pensioners from Labour’s winter fuel blunder

  • Sunak ‘should apologise for £22bn black hole’, says Starmer during PMQs – video

10 September 2024

  • Keir Starmer delivering a statement to members of Parliament

    ‘We’ll get the blame’: tensions simmer within Labour over winter fuel cut

    While Commons rebellion was small-scale, behind the scenes, anger over handling of the policy is said to run high

  • Government defeats winter fuel motion as 53 Labour MPs abstain and one votes with Tories – video

    MPs in the Commons have backed the decision to remove the winter fuel allowance from all but the poorest pensioners

    • ‘They’ve robbed us’: UK pensioners on losing the winter fuel payment

    • MPs back cuts to winter fuel payments in Commons vote

    • Energy suppliers told to improve customer service or face firm action

9 September 2024

  • Keir Starmer

    Politics Weekly UK
    Politics Weekly Westminster: Winter fuel payments test for Labour – podcast

    The Guardian’s Pippa Crerar and Kiran Stacey talk about Labour’s first big test in parliament over their winter fuel payments policy. Plus, will Keir Starmer’s trip to Washington be awkward after his decision on arms licences to Israel?
  • A senior woman holds a gas bill against the windowsill and puts her hands to a radiator; she is wearing a cardigan and the light suggests it is winter

    Why is Labour’s proposed winter fuel payments cut controversial?

    The decision has become Labour’s first political crisis but is the government likely to change course?
  • A person with an electric heater

    Ministers facing pressure from unions over winter fuel payment cut

    TUC and Unite leaders express ‘real concerns’ over policy as many Labour MPs expected to abstain in Commons vote

8 September 2024

  • Andrew Rawnsley

    ‘Iron chancellor’ Rachel Reeves faces an early challenge to her authority over winter fuel payments

    Andrew Rawnsley
    Furore over cuts to the pensioner benefit is all the more potent when the left, right and centre can all find reasons to oppose the policy

7 September 2024

  • The chancellor, Rachel Reeves, holds a press conference after her statement to MPs on the state of public finances on 29 July.

    There’s no need to cut poorer pensioners’ income. Smarter winter fuel solutions are at hand

    Steve Webb
    Payments could be restricted to those living in lower council tax bands, as money expert Martin Lewis has suggested, writes former pensions minister Steve Webb
  • Keir Starmer defended plans to limit winter fuel payments at prime minister’s questions as the chancellor, Rachel Reeves, looked on.

    Winter fuel payments cut ‘one of the worst decisions I have ever seen’ says ex pensions minister

    Crossbench peer will table ‘fatal’ Lords motion, as Starmer faces damaging rebellion in Commons vote
  • Side profile of Rachel Reeves

    Labour ministers reveal grave concerns about winter fuel payment cut

    Frontbenchers say they have had string of complaints from constituents and policy ‘won’t be worth the political hit’

6 September 2024

  • Raymond Dixon leans on a wooden fence outside his house

    ‘Will we freeze to death?’: trepidation in England’s snowiest village over loss of winter fuel payment

    Pensioners in Copley, which has 53 days of snow a year on average, say plan to limit help will be a ‘big loss’

5 September 2024

  • Older person sitting in armchair next to heater

    MPs to vote on winter fuel allowance cuts as Labour backbench unease grows

  • Larry Elliott

    Labour’s decision to cut winter fuel payments is mean and politically inept

    Larry Elliott

4 September 2024

  • Starmer pressed on changes to winter fuel payment for older people – video

    Keir Starmer told MPs the Tory leadership hopeful Kemi Badenoch had previously expressed support for the winter fuel measure

3 September 2024

  • Stocks of food at a Trussell Trust food bank

    Most working families on universal credit struggle to buy essentials, research shows

    The Trussell Trust has called for urgent action after half of people on low-income benefits ran out of food in last month

August 2024

  • An elderly man sitting in his front room with his hat and scarf on warming his hand against his electric fire.<br>D2BMGN An elderly man sitting in his front room with his hat and scarf on warming his hand against his electric fire.

    Gathering fairer ways to pay winter fuel allowance

    Letters: Readers offer suggestions on how the government could manage the benefit better so that vulnerable pensioners are not left out in the cold
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