Rachel Reves has been questioned‘Winter fuel after U-turn It emerged The government has planned to restore payment for all pensioners before trying to bring back from millions of people through high taxes.
Chancellor Hope to set LaborIs planned Reverse the controversial policy change In the review of Wednesday’s spending, but new questions have been raised on how to distribute payment by the government.
Report suggests MS Reves will restore the grant from this autumnBy £ 300, for 10 million pensioners who lost. But the payment will be kept at the bottom half of the average income, in which the top half will be forced to repay the grant through high tax bills during the year.
An alternative to the threshold at which pensioners are eligible, the average domestic disposable income is currently around £ 37,000, Many times Informed
Such a scheme will be similar to George Osborne’s high income child benefit charge, with taxes for each £ 100 of more than £ 60,000 of total hair gain. This means that whatever threshold sets for MS Reves payment, an amount will be brought back from high -income people.
The plans may cost around 700 million pounds, the Chancellor fasted to determine his plans to pay for changes in his autumn budget.
Dennis Reid of the 60s campaign group Silver Voice said that the schemes would be “an administrative nightmares and the tax system would be likely to be attracted to many more pensioners”.
They told Independent: “The most cost -effective solution is to restore universal benefits and perhaps fidel with high tax range in appropriate time to target ‘millionaires’.”
Mr. Reid accused the government that “casting around for ways to show that it has not made a full U-turn while receiving political credit to do so”.
This pension minister comes after Torsten Bell, stating that there is no possibility of winter’s fuel allowance being universally restored.
He said: “I think most people, 95 percent of the people, agree, that it is not a good idea that we have a few hundreds of pounds paying a system to millionaires, and so we will not continue with it.”
Sir Cair Coward Last month announced his intention to provide access to more people Winter fuel paymentA few months after the labor, the first means universal payment, which was tested in one of its first acts after taking over.
Speak in Manchester On Wednesday, Ms. Reeves said: “I had to make decisions last year to restore the sound public finance, and included many difficult decisions around welfare, taxation and public expenses, including the decisions of meins-test winter fuel payments, so only the poorest pensioners, pension credits, it was found.
“But we have now placed our public finance on a strong rung. The economy is in a better size, but we have also heard the concerns that people had about the level of means-testing.
“So we are making changes in it. They will be in place so that pensioners will be paid this coming winter, and we will announce the details of that level, as we can do as soon as we can.”
Treasury and department have been asked to comment for work and pension.