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Labour to restore winter fuel payments to 9 million pensioners
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- Опубліковано 23 чер 2025
- It's almost a year since the newly-elected government took the hugely unpopular decision to remove winter fuel payments from all but the poorest pensioners.
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Today, the Chancellor said she had listened and is restoring the payment to the vast majority of pensioners this winter.
But where will the money come from and does this u-turn come too late to undo the political damage?
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Too late! The cruel damage has been done!
Listen to her droning on. Can’t stand her.
Shes a machine that gets wound up now and again. No sincerity, no apology and no emotion from her. She's kidding herself if she thinks she will have more voters return to labour
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The damage is already done the fact they took it away in the first place!!
Just take the cash, and move on.
I didn't see you complaining when they raised the state pension age.
That is a much bigger problem than cutting winter fuel payments for those who could afford to not have them!
@barnigranero5882 They quickly removed my message regarding the state pension ..
@@localreviewking134 have they given anything back to the disabled, or are the poorest and most vulnerable bailing out the wealthiest AGAIN? they'll have to perform miracles if they ever expect my vote again. 12 years to get rid of tories only to get tories.
@@barnigranero5882 i complained you nit.
Too little , far too late .
It`s Summer, it will come in handy in Winter,
Ah yes, I for one am glad we're now reinstating Prince Andrews fuel bill.
@honeybadger3902sour grapes 😅😅
@@Van-1954 Mate I'm actually quite seriously concerned about you. Are you doing okay?
@@Van-1954 Fella , get help !
they take it away and then expect everyone to be grateful when they give it back.
It’s called a tease..
@@cheny123-w9y It's called a bloo dy con!
OK, give it back then. Stop moaning, just take the cash and book a week in Tenerife?
@@localreviewking134with 300 quid ?
Maybe in 1975
It wouldn’t get you a bus to the airport these days 😂
@ivaningham8097 well at least labour gave us the winter fuel allowance the Tories gave us F all
Never forget the Labour MP's who clapped and cheered in the House of Commons when Reeves first announced the decision to remove the WFA. Absolute Socialist cruds.....
The removal of WFA is the opposite of Socialism. That word actually has a specific definition - and it's neither pertinent to Starmer's Labour, nor the pejorative you think it is. WFA is literally a socialist policy.
Starmer party is not socialist they are neoliberalism
i don't think you've looked at a dictionary chum.
Seriously, any employer taking on a liar false CV would sack that person. It would show a lie and a lie means your not capable of that job and you lied to get it not having the qualifications to do it. Rachel Reeves!
To late mate
Pensioners won’t ever forget what Labour did
And their children won’t forget either don’t you worry
They may not forget - though many will - but they will absolutely forgive. You let your wishful thinking corrupt your judgement, such as it is.
I bet they will conveniently forget about the lies Nigel Farage has told time and time again when it comes to voting time.
Punish Labour by voting for another charlatan.
@@tommymorrison6478what are you some sort of profit
More like a Labour supporter l expect
Their children are the ones having to pay for this.
We all pay into a private/workplace pension to ensure this doesn't happen to us whilst the current pensioners sit in houses that have accrued 300% of their value and they refuse to release any equity.
@@Van-1954 I think you mean "prophet". "profit" is a gain or benefit of some sort. You were offered as good an education as one can get in this world and you turned it down, but nonetheless want everyone else to listen to your opinions. At least learn your own language for chrissake.
What I will find impossible to forgive or forget is that Labour MP's cheered when the WFA vote passed. I didn't see it but apparently there was a bit of fist-bumping, too.
The reason for the current U-turn isn't because Labour has realised the difficulties the elderly faced last winter and has genuine regrets: the cheering proved that they don't have any genuine empathy. No: this is because Reform ousted them from many seats in the recent local elections and Labour MP's fear that, with four more winters to go - some of which may be more severe for the elderly than others - they may lose their seats.
There should be this level of anger over what they are doing to disabled people
exactly. take away a benefit and then return it and expect thanks, while still shafting the vulnerable - this is tories 2.0 not labour.
What they're doing to the disabled is 1000 times worse. Many will suffer, some will die. Nobody should *ever* forgive Labour for that.
Absolutely!!! Not one media outlet is even mentioning all the disabled people who lost their winter fuel allowance
...and therefore we're not getting it back! I had no heating all last winter..and for the first time in ten years of living in this house it exploded with black mould everywhere! AND they are taken 1/3 of my benefits as I moved to universal credit. We only use one room in the evening,short of sitting in the dark and eating fresh air there are no more economies to be made!
I’m glad I will be getting the winter fuel payment this winter but the damage has been done. It was miserable being cold last winter and that’s not something you forget.
I don’t care about pensioners I care about genuine disabled people being screwed over.
They are not labour they are red tories neoliberals
It's a bugga being on oil over winter as the price changes almost daily. For 500 litres (three months) it can range from £220 to £390.
So you were above the threshold and chose to be cold.
Mortgage paid off I guess? Just release some equity.
@honeybadger3902sour grapes again 😅😅😅
@@Van-1954 How's that sour grapes? Your activating for the rich to be paid their heating bills by the poorest in today's society.
Now close down all the hotels!
Good one
And do what with the asylum seekers in the hotels? Just leave them on the streets? Then you’ll be complaining about that as well.
I hope not, I booked two weeks in Clacton. Off for wee drinkie with Nige.
How many poor OAPs have died due to this evil government???????
Well we must remember those midazolamised by the previous government in the care homes and then there;s the S&E to be considered.
You work 50 years pay the taxes then they dont want to give you nothing ie you've passed the sell by date.
If you’ve worked for 50 years you should have saved enough not to be so skint. That can only mean one of two things. You’ve either never really been in a well paid job or you pissed it up the wall in Benidorm. In either case I would rather my taxes go to support younger people who haven’t had the opportunities you have.
Why didn't you just put into a private pension? You know, like all of us generations after had to.
@@phil4162some folk don’t and never will have highly paid jobs yet provide a good service to those that have .
Imagine if we had no shop workers , no bar staff , no cleaners , no carers .
What an ignorant statement that is . As for helping the young I agree we do need to help them , maybe train in a job that needed instead of getting a degree in something totally useless that the uni made up to milk them of money .
@ivaningham8097if these people have never been in well paid jobs they won’t have paid much tax and will have been net beneficiaries of the system all their lives and yet are still holding out their hand for more money.
@ivaningham8097 Very well said! 👍
Politically , that horse has already bolted.
Knocking Tice into the hack stack, and Lee into the cow pat.
When sloppy chops Rayner was in opposition, she reckoned that the Tory’s were thinking of stopping the winter fuel allowance, she said that 7 thousand pensioners would die of the cold , I’d like to know did the government reach there target ?
SO THEY DID HAVE THE MONEY!
Money printer goes brrrrr
More labour lies .
Damage is done.
People won't forget what Labour have done
100% We Won't ARS-HO-ES
Labour voters will.
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Where else would they cut funding from? Because it has to be cut from somewhere. You can’t win
@@househead99tax the rich not the poor.
What about refunding last year's payments. According to Labour's own study, up to 4000 pensioners have already died as a
result of witholding it yet Rachel from non-accountability smirks on like nothing happened
Shocking stats
So the same number of deaths that happens every winter. You just care now because labour is in charge.
Made up stats!
Far too ⏰ late we now know what Labour think of us All
Hand the money back then. You don`t have to take it.
The damage is well and truly done. They proved how little regard they have for our elderly parents and grandparents, while millions of criminals who have broken into our country illegally are being treated to free housing, free heating, free food, free clothing, free mobile phone and more pocket money than the state pension, our own parents and grandparents are left to freeze. Evil is as evil does.
Please may I have the last winter payment as well. Need heat as I have bad pain from arthritis.
Don’t talk soft.
Iff you didn't get it then you didn't need it. The entitlement on you people is astounding
@@ericlayton8888 some people don't have holiday and save money--got a little with being frugal and honest about what I have. Some know how to play the system.
The fuel allowance costs £1 Billion per year. The part reversal has halved that, so Pensioners get half a billion and the treasury get half a billion per year. THE BILL FOR ECONOMIC ASYLUM SCROUNGERS IS ONE £BILLION EVERY MONTH. Just think about that next time you get to vote. Worst government of all time.
Very true
WE ALL WATCHED WHEN THE LABOUR PARTY CHEERED TO GET
THE VOTE AND CUT WINTER ALLOWANCE.
OUR YOUNG ONES WILL NEVER FORGET WHAT THEY DID TO THIER PARENTS , GRANDPARENTS, AUNTS , UNCLES AND FRIENDS .
WHO WERE FORCED TO LIVE IN COLD HOMES .
IT CAUSED DEATH ILLNESS AND ANXIETY FOR THEM .
THIS REMAINS A STAIN ON UK MOST VULNERABLE SOCIETY.
THEY WERE CRYING AND DEPRESSED .
AND I WILL NEVER FORGIVE THEM .
Simple - never vote for Labour ever again at local or national level.
Shiyting themselves at reform in power.
So am I. They couldn't run an effing bath.😮
@@kevinjohnson3782 oh ya Labour much better lol.
@@kevinjohnson3782and you know this how ?
Everyone has only ever voted the uni party and look how it’s gone .
@ivaningham8097 you do realise that Reform are also backed by billionaires with regressive agendas? They will only accelerate what the "uni party" have started
@@kevinjohnson3782 They won't be worse than Labour or the Tories.
Reversing it is admitting defeat
How many pensioners died because of labour’s decision last winter absolutely disgraceful
Why are people cheering they took them away. So giving back something they had taken. Not human beings just total scumbags.
So much for the so called “20 billion black hole” . Dodgy chancellor ..
Exposed the contempt that they have for retired working people. They tax retired people on tiny pensions .They betrayed the British way of life
After she saw 4000 died she decided to change her mind
Labour have shown their colours and however hard they row back 'ordinary' voters won't forget
If you trust Labour more fool you but we’ll done. It’s a classic take away give back. Make them feel like Oliver Twist
Part give back, not a real regret and return to the state before they acted appallingly. Not even a public apology!
Politicians getting over £35000 still on target for winter fuel allowance.
Of course the damage is already done. Liebour won't ever rule this country again 1:11
Highest energy prices in the world and getting higher. Thanks Labour.
When they opened Calder Hall, the world's first nuclear power station, they promised us "electricity too cheap to meter."
All of them! And the answer is not chinese/french large nuclear or fracking.
Net zero bs continues.
The issue is generator profits for shareholders.
I wont forgive forget or vote for them again. They are only doing it because they are crapping themselves about Reform 😒
If they reinstate it i still wont vote for them, i haven't forgotten that they wanted the unvaxed to be put in camps.
Get them out
Wait till Farage gets in. He has already said he wants to go to an insurance based health care system.
So, you work hard all your life, secure a decent pension and are shunned in favour of someone who may have existed on benefits their whole adult life. WT🤬!
If you have a decent private pension then why do you need money to heat your home at the expense of the current generation?
@honeybadger3902
Have you received a fuel bill lately. A ‘decent’ pension does not always cover every eventuality. For example, some pensioners need to bail out those of the ‘current generation.’
The question is, why should those who have not contributed to society receive more? Granted, it may not always be their fault, but some people fritter their income away without making provision for their old age. Do those that make such provisions deserve to be penalised?
@@Chafflives Right and it was means tested so those on the lowest income still got it.
And those that contributed 30 years ago haven't contributed to the same extent as to what they're now taking out.
That's why todays pensioners are not paying for their own pensions from 30 years ago. It's todays youth that is paying it. That's just how it works. You might want to brush up on that.
Todays youth are forced into mandatory pension contributions unless they opt out. Where was that 30 years ago? Oh that's right, it wasn't a thing and todays pensioners got all of their wages and on top of that had much lower expenses and the opportunity of house ownership on a single wage.
It's no wonder people aren't having children these days and we rely on immigration to keep up with employment. We need it.
@honeybadger3902
You obviously weren’t around thirty years ago.
At that time, I paid into a mandatory pension.
Things may be more expensive now, but that’s inflation.
Costs have always been relative to wages.
‘Haven’t contributed to the extent they are now taking out.’ Utter nonsense.
We had to struggle hard to get on the housing ladder even then. ON TWO WAGES.
The trouble with today’s generation is that they want it all and they want it NOW.
We rely on immigrants to do the work that today’s citizens feel is beneath them.
Life has always been tough. It’s just that today’s people lack resilience.
Unless you’ve lived it you are unqualified to comment.
@@Chafflives "You obviously weren’t around thirty years ago" I was though and long before that too.
Don't tar us all with your selfishness.
And to any youth reading this, I apologize, we're not all like this. Some of us do understand what you're facing.
To say you're just lacking resilience like this last person is hilarious as they complain they're not getting a means tested benefit payment.
In their mind they're not a benefit scrounger. That's everybody else.
Still penny pinching from the disabled though they think the pensioner's are happy what about disability payments
Always money for Ukraine
And if they didn't it was the lives of your children instead.
I`m not keen on fighting, so give the Ukrainians all the help we can.
yes, and there should be, but you take that money from people who don't friggin NEED a winter fuel payment, like millionaires. that's what a labour government SHOULD be doing, not cutting disabled people's benefits.
and if russia takes ukraine poland would be next, if you don't understand politics and you've forgotten WWII already then stay out of the game.
@honeybadger3902sour grapes again 😅😅😅
Reeves is a horrible person with the most scary grin ever.
Puppet on a string really
1. Nepotism. 2. All Women Short List. 3.. Labour Friend of Israel.
Her qualifications in full.
😂😂😂😂😂 how embarrassing is this for this so called Government. 😂😂😂😂😂
5 billion per year on economic migrants and rising every day
The average voter in the UK can barely remember what they ate for breakfast this morning, never mind specific govt policy from several years prior.
And they'll vote for whoever promises them the most lies 🤷♂
That's the way politics works isn't it?
Also, a lot of those pensioners won't be around by the next election, especially if we have some particularly inclement winters between now and then 🥶
They should all be given that money back it was illegal what they cruelly did to the pensioners , absolutely disgusting., they shouldn't get away with this it was robbery .
So will they be charged with manslaughter for those that died not able to afford heating last winter?
Name one instance when that happened
As soon as the Tories are for the hundreds of thousands their Covid policies killed
The big question is where or to whom did she spend the WFA on as Illegal Aliens are costing Taxpayers around £10 Million a DAY !
Too little too late. What about the farmers? What about the NI hikes? What about the illegal scroungers who they don’t deport? What about those gaoled for hurty words? What about the Prevent debacle? What about the Islamisation of the UK? What about the taking us back into the eu? What about giving away the Chagos Islands? What about … it just goes on and on.
What nonsense.
Bang on correct🎯🎯🎯
Fastest growth in the g7 baby.
@@chindit6784 yes, in the first 6 months of 2024, remind me again what happened in the 7th??? Hahahahahaha!
You must read the Daily Mail.
High rent Low wages, No retirement, = No Future. Workers, they ended up working just for Rent and Council tax, and eating at the Food Bank…WOW
At least they have listened and are trying to sort things out
Must suck for Labour... that wanted rid of those old Brexit voters before the election.
OF course the damage is done !!! You cant take back evil, Labour thinks they can U turn the hatred of them away !
If nobody had made so much protest against Reeves original decision to the winter fuel payments then I feel sure that they would never have reinstated it quite as quickly!
Getting an increase in the personal allowance will not be quite as easy, if at all. Age allowance was phased out by the Conservatives in 2013, so pensioner bashing has been going on for quite a while!!! 🙄
It will make no difference! Labour has made to many mistakes, and list has been growing for months!
Why is everyone in that gardening club grinning gurning at her as though she's bestowed some great gift upon them? Are people REALLY that thick? Apparently so.
Probably hand picked for this moment.
She maybe bought them all tea and scones😊
I couldn't have sat there
Forget weapons, feed the poor and disabled in the UK
Labour owes pensioners from last year let alone this year
£200 will only pay for one month. What about the rest of winter?
Give them an excuse now to put energy bills up😅
Maybe western countries need to tax billionaires. The money printed since 2008 has not been taxed.
This is great news 👏 🙌 👍
They shouldn’t have forgotten the last time they was in power with the cover up of groomers but sadly so many didn’t listen they just went after Tommy and now it’s been proven correct everyone tried to silence him and he was lied about calling him far right racist & he’s not, the only thing he done was expose the truth and they didn’t like that and still don’t 🤷🏻♂️
Take a course in English.
It shouldn't take a long battle for common sense and fairness to prevail. This government is shameful and unpatriotic.
We never forget, remember the tories!
Reeves is so thick, if they'd tapered off the winter fuel allowance vs. income in the tax regime in the same way it's done to reduce child benefit to zero once you reach a certain income level there would have been no fuss at all in the 1st place and no one would have suffered last winter. Really is time this joke of a chancellor was sacked , she's Nigel Osborne 2.0 , Starmer needs to get a grip and find himself a chancellor capable of thinking outside the tory box , one that's worthy of the job in a centre left government.
You didn’t make Difficult decisions you made WRONG ones
They already crashed the labour wagon ....the U turn came too late . She sounds like a mondassian cyberman
The damage has beendone to the voters pensioners
As a pensioner who served in the military as a volunteer and worked all his life but now needs to claim pension credit I find this new £35,000 income level amazing. I have managed to heat my room and eat on so much less. Why would the present generation work to fund a greedy retired generation? If you have a roof and an adequate diet in old age, be content. Remember all those that died to give you this freedom before you feel hard done by.
Well said!
How many died last winter because of their heinous actions and policies
None
How many died due to troy austerity or beause of Brexit inflicted poverty? thats a better question
*Tory
4000 Labour said
"The Winter Fuel Payment for 2025 to 2026 will be made to everyone in England and Wales born before 22 September 1959, unless you choose not to get it. You could get either £200 or £300 to help you pay your heating bills for winter." Source the gov website application section.
So clearly they are still excluding it from the disabled people whome also lost it then!!! Thats not a complete U-turn then and more than a little discriminating of the disabled.
As for PIP, well i prefer not to comment, its just pure evil. Excuse to get people working by changing a social security benefit thats not even work related? Logic is just a fairytale to these people in charge and its just sickening.
She sounds like a robot.....a very cheap and incompetently programmed robot.
So, if you've got 35k coming in a year your to get £300 towards your winter fuel bill. Kerching, that will boost the grandkids Christmas present fund.
Reeves your a liar
Yes I’m a pensioner and definitely not a millionaire, haven’t got any savings, my husband is too young, so I can’t get pension credits. I won’t get a penny to help me pay my fuel bills, at over 230 a month. So no pensioners who get only a matter of £5 a month over the threshold. The damage has been done.
that is your fault
£230 per month!? I am a pensioner who pays just under £90 for dual fuel.
I agree they were worried about losing the seats they still have
Labour dont like pensioners. But they do like their votes
I love the grounded reality of this channel, Despite no jobs and people can no longer afford to live, people will be lining up to live off the government.
Getting $63k subsequently is a blessing.
How please? If it's possible, I would appreciate if you show me how to go about it
Well, I picked the challenge to put my finances in order. Then I invested in cryptocurrency,stocks,through the assistance of my discretionary fund manager, PEGGY YIP CHARETTE.
is this the same Peggy Yip C.? That helps me with 24k investment "wow" such a small world.
I know Peggy yip C. too, I came from owing bank loans to getting knocked out of my apartment, from almost losing my marriage to all of a sudden having returns of $125,000 every two months. I'll forever give credits to her.
I have seen so many recommendations about Peggy yip charette, her strategy must be good for people to talk bout her
Never forget never forgive !!
Shows how desperate labour are.
Thats what they say now, give it a couple of months, and they will take everyone's pensions.
I will believe it when it happens! Gave us a rise in pensions and then taxed our private pensions and now worse of than
before! Taxed on a private pension less than £200 a month. I lost my other pension in 2005, and so did thousands and maybe millions at that time. Told to put all your pensions in one pot then lost the lot. I remember on the news people who just retired walking out of work for the last time and told due to the current market pensions were lost. That was under a Labour government.
What about giving us the 300 quid they nicked from us last winter
Come September it will be gone again
Two little too late labour.
Labour would have been better sticking to their guns as the damage is done. Even if they had TOTALY reversed the decision it would not have worked this means testing only rubs salt into the wound Labour will face the wrath of pensioners in 2029 and for decades after
I really cannot stand to listern to her voice. It's empty of emotion. Like a robot.
LABOUR PARTY,Party you lot should step down immediately and make way for the REFORM UK PARTY, THAT'S THE future of England.
What has happened to this. Country. It is finished time to leave
Go on then
Moving nation is never ever acceptable in any direction.
What about a double xmas bonus next year
Well £20 is about enough to feed my cat for a week or two
I don't care what Rachel from accounts says about anything I'll never vote for any party that she is part of or her loasthsome colleagues
Liebour Tossers
It must be backdated too !!! After all it IS theft
Rupert Lowe for PM
YES, A THOUSAND TIMES YES.
If labour keep u-turning like this we'll have? Tax wealth not work a good thing to do
Still blown it