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Pensioners have started receiving winter fuel payments for the year, with eligible pensioners set to receive £200-300 in their bank accounts from 25 November. In previous years, all pensioners would receive the payment every winter to help towards cold weather heating costs. Now, it will only be paid to pensioners who are claiming pension credit.

Every pensioner household in Scotland will receive a winter fuel payment next year, the Scottish government has announced. Social Justice Secretary Shirley-Anne Somerville said those in receipt of qualifying benefits like Pension Credit would get £200 or £300 depending on their age, while all others would get £100.

Just 42,500 applications for pension credit have been approved over the past 16 weeks - less than 5% of the 880,000 people the Government said were missing out on the benefit in July

Members of a trade union and pensioner groups took to the streets of Cambridge city centre on Saturday (November 30). This was in protest at the Government's decision to make Winter Fuel Payments means tested - meaning millions will no longer receive the benefit.

Thousands of people in West Yorkshire are at risk of missing out on winter fuel payments as they are not claiming pension credits, new figures suggest. With the 21 December deadline for applications looming,

Around 3,300 pensioners in Bolton stripped of their winter fuel payment are to be handed £200 each from the council before Christmas. Councillors heard that the intervention by the council would be ‘a welcome Christmas gift for some fo the most vulnerable in our borough’ as the £200 vouchers would be sent in December.

State pensioners have been issued the exact time to switch their heating on after losing the £300 Winter Fuel Payment. BestHeating have shared their advice on how to keep warm and reduce the risk of mould growing.

Pensioners are speaking out about how are "dreading this winter" following Labour's decision to effectively axe the Winter Fuel Payment for millions of older households. Over the summer, Chancellor Rachel Reeves confirmed that the Winter Fuel Payment,