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UNDER THE NEW RULES, YOU NEED TO BE CLAIMING A QUALIFYING BENEFIT SUCH AS PENSION CREDIT. 12:22, 03 Jun 2025 State pensioners have been warned the exact amount you can receive in Winter Fuel

Payments will vary depending on your birth year and potentially other circumstances. Previously, the winter fuel payment was automatically given to all state pensioners. However, under the

new rules, you need to be claiming a qualifying benefit such as Pension Credit. For those who are of state pension age but under 80, meaning born on or before September 22, 1958, and

qualify, a £200 payment will be received. And the Department for Work and Pensions ( DWP ) says those aged over 80 - born September 23, 1944 or earlier - will receive £300. READ MORE UK

FACES 'SPANISH SCORCHER' HEATWAVE WITH 31C AS EXACT DATE IT STARTS ANNOUNCED It comes as Sir Keir Starmer has confirmed that he wants more pensioners to be eligible for winter fuel

payments after a backlash against one of the most unpopular policies of the Labour Party government. Article continues below The prime minister indicated in the Commons that he would look

again at the £11,500 threshold over which pensioners are no longer eligible for the allowance. At prime minister’s questions on Wednesday, Starmer told MPs: “I recognise that people are

still feeling the pressure of the cost of living crisis, including pensioners, as the economy improves. “We want to make sure people feel those improvements as their lives go forward. That

is why we want to ensure that as we go forward, more pensioners are eligible for winter fuel payments.” Article continues below “Because of those decisions, the economy is beginning to

improve,” he said, citing growth figures and interest rate cuts, plus the hoped-for impact of recent trade arrangements with India, the US and EU. “As the economy improves, we want to take

measures that will impact on people’s lives, and therefore we will look at the threshold, but that will have to be part of the fiscal event,” he added.