FactCheck: Winter Fuel Payments to the vulnerable
October 25, 2010 6:32 pm 1 Comment
The claim
“The Government is preserving key benefits for older and vulnerable people, including Winter Fuel Payments”
Spending Review 2010
The background
Winter Fuel Payments – a thorny issue for David Cameron during the election. Politically it’s a sacred cow for the Prime Minister after his angry outburst in the second leaders’ debate when Gordon Brown pushed him on whether he would keep it.
And so pensioners escaped relatively unscathed from the slashing Spending Review with their universal Winter Fuel Payments intact, although the top-up the last government introduced for two years is still due to come to an end. But is it just the vulnerable that benefit?
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