Martin Lewis issues warning to pensioners with income of more than £11,400

Martin Lewis is urging the Government to constitute to pensioners who are eligible for the Winter Fuel Payment - and says they are astatine hazard of missing retired connected this indispensable benefit

Money-saving guru Martin Lewis issued a stern informing astir a DWP regularisation that could beryllium leaving authorities pensioners retired of pouch by £3,900 each.

On his ITV amusement 'The Martin Lewis Money Show', Mr Lewis didn't clasp backmost arsenic helium addressed an assemblage conscionable hours earlier the Autumn Budget announcement, putting unit connected Labour Chancellor Rachel Reeves to instrumentality action. In a poignant moment, a caller widow inquired whether she could person pension recognition arsenic she navigated the nonaccomplishment of her partner.

Martin's effect highlighted the dire situation: "You person to beryllium connected an income of nether £11,400 to beryllium eligible. It's a precise choky means trial and is critically underclaimed." His crusade for enactment continued adjacent during his stint connected ITV's Good Morning Britain, where, successful the midst of an interrogation with Lisa Nandy, helium exclaimed, "The poorest pensioners, the poorest connected nether £11,400 - you judge they should get Pension Credit and Winter Fuel Payments but they're not going to claim.

"They're the hardest to reach, you're not penning idiosyncratic letters to them, you're not linking it to Attendance Allowance and Housing Benefit. There's tons you could do. So, to effort and speech astir 'we're targeting the poorest' the information is you're not targeting the poorest. Why aren't you penning them bloody letters? " helium raged.

"The information is you person to judge you're not going to scope them due to the fact that these are the radical that are hardest to reach. So however are you going to support them? You're taking an uplift of 115 per cent, you've gone from 20,000 a period claiming Pension Credit to 40,000, but determination are 780,000 people," helium pointed out.

"You would request astatine slightest an exponential emergence successful the fig of radical claiming Pension Credit for those prisoners to assertion this year. We person to accept. You person to judge determination volition beryllium galore hundreds of thousands of the poorest pensioners nether £11,400 income you volition not scope this year."

"You are taking wealth retired of their hands. Do you judge the truth, the world is that's what volition practically happen? I'm saying it, Age UK are saying it, others are saying it. So let's beryllium honest, you're consenting to judge that collateral harm of hundreds of thousands of poorest pensioners, galore with dementia, not getting the Winter Fuel Payment."

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