| Heading: |
Winter Fuel Payments: Terminal Illnesses |
| Question ID: |
1759886 |
| UIN: |
27328 |
| House: |
Commons |
| Date tabled: |
2025-01-29 |
| Asking Member ID: |
5247 |
| Asking Member display name: |
Sojan Joseph
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| Asking Member handle: |
sojanuk
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| Asking Member Twitter reference: |
@sojanuk
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| Member interest: |
false |
| Question text: |
To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions, if she will make an assessment of the potential merits of extending the criteria for the eligibility of the Winter Fuel allowance to include pensioners who have received a terminal diagnosis. |
| Is named day: |
true |
| Date of holding answer: |
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| Date answered: |
2025-02-04 |
| Date answer corrected: |
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| Is holding answer: |
false |
| Is correcting answer: |
false |
| Answering Member ID: |
5069 |
| Answering Member display name: |
Torsten Bell
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| Answering Member handle: |
TorstenBell
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| Answering Member Twitter reference: |
@TorstenBell
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| Answer text: |
Linking Winter Fuel eligibility to Pension Credit and other means tested benefits for pensioners, ensures the least well-off pensioners still receive the help they need; this includes people with a terminal illness who are eligible. There are no plans to ... |
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| Answering body ID: |
29 |
| Answering body name: |
Department for Work and Pensions |
| Tweeted: |
true |