Winter Fuel Payments U-turn: a “debacle” causing “needless misery” and the Chancellor should apologise

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Responding to the Chancellor announcing that the changes to the Winter Fuel Payment thresholds will be in place for this winter with the new thresholds to be announced at the Spending Review, Liberal Democrat Treasury spokesperson Daisy Cooper MP said:

"This whole debacle has caused needless misery for millions of pensioners.

"We will look at the details of the changes at the Spending Review next week. In the meantime the Chancellor should apologise to all those pensioners who had to freeze this winter because of this senseless policy.”

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Notes to Editors:

Reporting on the Chancellor’s comments can be found here: https://x.com/Steven_Swinford/status/1930194968053797270