Every pensioner household in Scotland will receive a winter fuel payment next year, the Scottish government has announced.

Campaigners have said this threshold is too low, and will put two million vulnerable pensioners at risk of missing out.

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She went on to add that the government has seen an increase in the number of people claiming Pension Credit, with a 152 ...

Unite, one of Labour’s major donors, has repeatedly called on the Government to abandon its decision to means test the winter ...

All pensioners in Scotland will receive a winter fuel payment once again from next year, the Scottish government has ...

THE Scottish Government has announced it will introduce a universal winter fuel payment to all Scottish pensioners next ...

The union has applied to the High Court for a judicial review of the government’s decision to cut the Winter Fuel Payment for ...

The Prime Minister is under pressure after the Scottish government announced every OAP north of the border would receive a ...

Just 42,500 applications for pension credit have been approved over the past 16 weeks - less than 5% of the 880,000 people ...