Winter Fuel Payment cut will plunge up to 100,000 pensioners into poverty, government admits …C0NTINUE READING HERE >>>
UP to 100,000 more pensioners will be plunged into poverty after losing their Winter Fuel Payments, according to the government’s own figures.
Welfare Secretary Liz Kendall finally turned over her internal estimates yesterday which laid bare the scale of the cuts.
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Welfare Secretary Liz Kendall published the figuresCredit: Getty
And it came as Labour in Scotland defied Sir Keir Starmer with a pledge to reinstate the cold-weather cash if it gets into power north of the border.
Chancellor Rachel…
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