One group won't have £300 winter fuel payment reinstated after u-turn

One group won't have £300 winter fuel payment reinstated after u-turn


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A LABOUR PARTY MP AND TREASURY MINISTER WARNED "MILLIONAIRES” WOULD NOT RECEIVE THE WINTER FUEL ALLOWANCE. 11:58, 30 May 2025 One group of state pensioners WON'T have the £300


Winter Fuel Payment reinstated despite a Labour Party government u-turn. A Labour Party MP and Treasury Minister warned "millionaires” would not receive the Winter Fuel Allowance.


Wealthy and rich older people should not get “subsidy for their energy bills from the Government”, a Treasury minister has suggested. Darren Jones has said that winter fuel payments will


“still be targeted to those that need it the most”. Speaking to Sky News on Thursday evening, Chief Secretary to the Treasury Mr Jones was asked about Reform UK’s commitments on both the


winter fuel and benefit cap policies. READ MORE LLOYDS BANK BRINGS IN BIG CHANGE AND ANYONE WHO IS IN A 'COUPLE' WILL BENEFIT “All of those things cost money,” Mr Jones said. “It’s


right that we set out the detail and how we’re going to pay for those in a proper and orderly way.” Article continues below He added: “We’re sticking to the principle that millionaires


shouldn’t be getting subsidy for their energy bills from the government, so winter fuel payments will still be targeted to those that need it the most.” Mr Jones also touched on the


Government’s approach to child poverty, telling the same programme that “we’re a Labour government we want child poverty to be falling in this country, not rising”. “Of course, we want to


help families lift themselves out of poverty.” The Guardian's Heather Stewart warned last week: "Here was the prime minister last week, saying it would have to be reversed – a


message that raised questions about the chancellor’s political judgment, and her grip on fiscal policy. Article continues below "Labour have not given a satisfactory answer either, to


the question of why they’re making the change – which adds to the sense of a government driven by tactics, not values." Ruth Curtice, director of the Resolution Foundation thinktank,


said: “Breaking the link between the number of mouths a family has to feed and the support it receives is simply inconsistent with real ambition on child poverty.” Ms Stewart said:


"Voters across the political spectrum seem to sense – and resent – this Labour government’s lack of a guiding project. It is not too late to embrace one, in the urgent challenge of


improving the lives of hundreds of thousands of the UK’s poorest kids."