Helping vulnerable pensioners with their energy bills
🔹Around 11.9 million Winter Fuel Payments and Pensioner Cost of Living Payments have been made to pensioners across the UK over the past month.
🔹More than 99% of eligible pensioners have now received up to £600 per household to help with their energy bill this Christmas for the second year running.
🔹 The support – worth over £4.8bn – comes on top of the biggest State Pension increase on record, and a commitment to a further increase next April.
- We halved inflation to ease the pressure on households, but we know vulnerable people in particular are still feeling its effects, which is why we have been delivering targeted cost of living support.
- Over the past month, nearly twelve million payments have been made to pensioners across the UK – meaning that more than 99 percent of eligible pensioners have now received up to £600 per household to help with their energy bill this Christmas for the second year running.
- As the economy turns a corner, with inflation halved and debt on track to fall, the Conservative Government will continue to take the long-term decisions to support the most vulnerable.
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