Depending on who you believe, David Cameron is either preparing to withdraw benefits
from wealthy pensioners after the next election, or is set to pledge to ring - fence them again.
Read Ed Balls» speech promising to remove winter fuel payments
from wealthy pensioners - in full and unedited.
Last week, the Conservative Free Enterprise Group called for free bus passes, free TV licences and winter fuel payments to be withdrawn entirely
from the wealthiest pensioner households.
Not exact matches
Labour's Lilian Greenwood asks Cameron to rejects suggestions
from the Tory MP Nick Boles and
from the Lib Dems for
wealthy pensioners to lose some of their benefits.
Labour's pledge to withdraw Winter Fuel Payments
from the
wealthiest 5 % of
pensioners is expected to save just # 100m.
There may come a tipping point when voters become suspicious of why the Tories keep targeting unemployment support, especially when bigger savings can be found
from ending unnecessary benefits to
wealthier pensioners such as free TV licences and winter fuel payments.»