Martin Lewis welcomed Partial U-turn By Sir Kire Stmper on winter fuel payment.
Prime Minister on Wednesday Announced He wanted to allow More pensioner With the improvement of the UK economy, to claim winter fuel payment of up to £ 300.
It is marked A turnaround For the Labor Government, which said in the last July last July that pensioners did not receive cash credits or other means, which will not get cash to help the tested benefits in the energy bill in cold months.
Came between this step Growing backlash He is concerned with his own MPs about the party’s performance in recent local elections.
However, no details have been released about how many more pensioners will be eligible, or if the policy will be changed on time for this winter, Mr. Lewis, the founder of Moniswingexpart.com, welcomed the move on social media.
But speaking at the Radio 4’s Today program on Friday, Mr. Lewis said that the government needs to focus on the estimated 700,000 eligible people who were not claiming pension credits, as they would miss winter fuel payment as it stands.
Currently, people under the age group of more than 66 are eligible for winter fuel payment in the receipt of pension credit or other means.
Among those who did not claim pension credits, Mr. Lewis said, some were the weakest in the society, some of whom were with the dementia of the beginning and who were struggling to fill the form or were unaware of what is going on.
He said: “I do not listen to them for the same reason, due to which they are not claiming. So we have a real problem that the weakest people have been ignored on the pension credit because they are entitled to it but are not claiming and are not claiming and the way the pension works, the form is complex to understand, forms are very difficult.”
Mr. Lewis also said that the threshold for pension credit was very low, as people receiving full state pension, £ 11,973 per year, do not receive winter fuel payments at present.
The government has recently set fire to the fire for its review in individual independent payments (PIPs) as part of cost reduction benefits. The office is estimating the office change for responsibility, affecting around 800,000 recipients.
One in Speech this weekWork and Pension Secretary Liz Kendal doubled LaborPlanned £ 5 billion Welfare deduction,
Asked about the cuts, Mr. Lewis said that his mail box was “flood”, which was with people sharing concerns on support for physical and mental health issues.
He said: “[They are] It is worried about how they will live and how they will continue.
“When you remove the payment from people without any other income, the biggest problem is what you do, how do you infection for a new low income when prices are rising? Answer you can’t.”