Scrapping Winter Fuel Allowance: Could there be another way?
This Is Why
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🗓️ 28 August 2024
⏱️ 21 minutes
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Under Chancellor Rachel Reeves' plan, only those who receive pension credit or other means-tested benefits will still get the ÂŁ200-ÂŁ300 towards the cost of their energy bills.  Â
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Critics, including Labour MPs, have said the payments will put even more pressure on elderly people as the cap on energy prices rises again in October. Â Â
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On this episode, Liz Bates gets a breakdown of Labour’s plan, from our political correspondent Serena Barker-Singh, and hears from one of its critics, Labour back-bencher Rachael Maskell.  Â
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Plus, could there be an alternative that could keep everyone happy? We hear from the Social Market Foundation’s Sam Robinson about its proposal for an alternative to the winter fuel allowance. Â
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Producer: Emma Rae Woodhouse Â
Editor: Paul StanworthÂ
Promotions producer: Jada-Kai Meosa John
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| 1:09.8 | Now to another 60-something who divides opinion |
| 1:13.1 | today. We have no other choice given the situation that we're in. Those with the broadest |
| 1:19.7 | shoulders should bear the heavier burden. This is Liz back in for Neil. So if the Prime Minister |
| 1:27.2 | really does think that, why was one of |
| 1:29.2 | his first moves to take money away from 10 million pensioners? I mean, it was basically Labor's |
| 1:35.5 | first big policy announcement, scrapping the winter fuel allowance, which is about 200, 300, 300 quid |
| 1:41.3 | a year to help with energy bills for all but the very poorest pensioners. |
| 1:46.9 | And it's not gone down very well at all. |
| 1:50.9 | Older people struggling with the cost of living want to know why they've been singled out. |
| 1:55.6 | Some Labour MPs are already plotting a rebellion and the government's only been in power for eight weeks. |
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