Pensioners are being urged to enactment earlier they miss retired (Image: Getty)
Pensioners are being urged to taxable a Winter Fuel Payment assertion by December 21 to debar missing retired connected a imaginable £300.
The Department of Work and Pensions (DWP) confirmed the assertion tin beryllium backdated to September 22, 2024.
This means those eligible could person 3 months' worthy of enactment to offset their bills implicit the colder months.
The outgo magnitude depends connected the twelvemonth the recipient was born.
The assertion tin beryllium backdated by 3 months to money substance costs (Image: Getty)
Eligible radical calved betwixt September 23, 1944, and September 22, 1958, volition person £200, and those calved earlier September 23, 1944, volition person £300.
DWP criteria stipulates azygous radical of qualifying property could person the outgo if they are connected a play income little than £218.15, and couples could successfully assertion if they are connected little than £332.95.
People indispensable besides unrecorded successful England oregon Wales and person either Pension Credit, Income Support, Income-Related Employment and Support Allowance (ESA), Jobseeker's Allowance (JSA), Child Tax Credit, Working Tax Credit oregon Universal Credit.
Winter Fuel Payments could assistance offset soaring costs (Image: Getty)
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Winter Fuel Payment is simply a yearly tax-free outgo made by the Government to assistance those implicit a definite property with their heating costs.
Labour came nether fierce disapproval aft Chancellor Rachel Reeves scrapped the antecedently cosmopolitan Winter Fuel Payment successful July truthful lone pensioners receiving benefits could assertion for the support.