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Chancellor Rachel Reeves has revised Winter Fuel Payment eligibility (Image: Getty)

Chancellor Rachel Reeves has revised Winter Fuel Payment eligibility, limiting it to pensioners who suffice for means-tested benefits similar Pension Credit.

The determination seeks to code budgetary pressures but faces immense disapproval for perchance excluding low-income pensioners who don't assertion specified benefits.

As portion of her October Budget, Rachel Reeves announced that the £300 winter substance payment volition present lone beryllium disposable to the poorest pensioners. To offset the impact, the authorities launched a run urging eligible individuals to use for Pension Credit.

However, authorities projections bespeak that an further 50,000 pensioners volition look comparative poorness by 2025 owed to this change, expanding to 100,000 by 2030 erstwhile factoring successful lodging costs.

Many radical are protesting against Ms Reeves determination (Image: Getty)

Ms Reeves emphasised her committedness to protecting the astir vulnerable, stating, “I americium determined to guarantee that the poorest pensioners are protected and volition inactive get wintertime substance payments, and indeed, to guarantee that pension incomes proceed to summation with the triple lock.”

The Prime Minister Sir Keir Starmer besides defended the determination to change wintertime substance payments, stating that portion it "makes sense," immoderate Budget choices were made reluctantly.

Speaking during a bid of BBC section vigor interviews, helium acknowledged the challenges posed by the changes and responded to questions from assorted presenters astir their imaginable interaction connected susceptible populations.

However, critics pass the argumentation could exacerbate substance poorness amid rising vigor costs, leaving susceptible individuals struggling to vigor their homes this winter.

You tin person your accidental connected whether it was the close determination oregon not - and if the Chancellor should reconstruct the assistance - successful our canvass below.