How nearly 15,000 pensioners in every Labour constituency will lose their winter fuel payment if Keir Starmer presses ahead with controversial plan to strip benefit from 10 million OAPs
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How nearly 15,000 pensioners in every Labour constituency will lose their winter fuel payment if Keir Starmer presses ahead with controversial plan to strip benefit from 10 million OAPs

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Some 15,000 pensioners in every Labour constituency will lose their winter fuel payment, a new analysis revealed. A total of six million pensioners who now have a Labour MP will lose the winter fuel payment under his government Only people on pension credit or certain other benefits will receive the winter fuel payments, while about 10 million others are set to be stripped of the allowance It comes as Government quietly slipped out an Equality Analysis of the payment cuts on Friday night, revealing that 83 per cent of over 80s and 71 per cent of pensioners with a disability will lose the subsidy. It comes as Government quietly slipped out an Equality Analysis of the payment cuts on Friday night, revealing that 83 per cent of over 80s and 71 per cent of pensioners with a disability will lose the subsidy and struggle to heat their homes The Government has insisted the move is necessary to help fill a '£22 billion black hole' in the public finances inherited from the Tory government, a figure that has been widely questioned. Liberal Democrat Work and Pensions spokesperson Wendy Chamberlain told the Mail: 'Scrapping winter fuel payments will hurt millions of pensioners - including many in poverty.

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