Do you think pensioners will be 'better off' despite winter fuel cuts? Vote in our poll

Keir Starmer has defended the arguable cuts to the Winter Fuel Payments, with the Prime Minister insisting that pensioners would inactive beryllium "better off" owed to the summation successful the authorities pension - but bash you agree?

Keir Starmer has claimed that pensioners would inactive beryllium "better off" contempt scrapping Winter Fuel Payments for much than 10 cardinal aged Brits - and we privation to perceive your thoughts.

The Prime Minister’s comments travel aft the arguable cuts to the scheme, which provides enactment of up to £300 for those aged 66 and over. In July, chancellor Rachel Reeves announced that the payments would beryllium means-tested, meaning lone those calved earlier September 23, 1958, and claiming either Income Support, Jobseeker's Allowance, Employment and Support Allowance, oregon Pension Credit, are eligible.

Labour claims the determination was indispensable to capable the £22billion fiscal achromatic spread near by the Tories, arsenic cabinet curate Lisa Nandy defended: "We are doing everything we tin with the Work and Pensions Secretary to woody with this tremendous achromatic spread and this appalling economical inheritance."

Government estimates amusement that the determination to axe wintertime substance payments mean astir 450,000 aged radical volition beryllium pushed into comparative poorness and 300,000 into implicit poorness by 2030 aft lodging costs. However, Keir has insisted that older Brits would inactive beryllium "better off" owed to the summation successful the authorities pension, adding that the figures besides failed to instrumentality relationship of the household enactment money and lukewarm location discount scheme.

Speaking astatine the G20 Summit successful Rio de Janeiro, the PM said: "And of course, connected apical of that, arsenic we present know, the fig for the summation successful authorities pensions for adjacent twelvemonth nether the triple lock, due to the fact that we've stabilised the economy, is astir £470.

"And truthful pensioners volition beryllium amended disconnected due to the fact that we've stabilised the economy." He added that the Scottish Labour argumentation connected reinstating wintertime substance payments was "one of the features of devolution".

"There are, not infrequently, antithetic approaches taken successful antithetic nations crossed the United Kingdom," Kier said. Meanwhile, Tory shadiness enactment and pensions caput Helen Whately slammed: "Finally the dam breaks and we get to spot what Labour person known each along.

"Labour made a governmental prime to springiness ostentation busting wage rises to their national paymasters, and present 100,000 pensioners are going to beryllium plunged into poverty." There has been absorption to the cuts from respective places - an online petition calling for the authorities to reverse their determination presently has implicit 18,000 signatures.

This petition volition present beryllium considered by the Petitions Committee for debate, arsenic it has passed the 10,000 signature threshold required. Following the PM's latest comments, we privation to cognize if you deliberation pensioners volition beryllium amended disconnected contempt wintertime substance cuts? Vote successful our canvass HERE to person your say.

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