Sentences with phrase «winter fuel allowance»

As I expected, I failed to get winter fuel allowance added to the state pension and taxed, instead of means - tested.

While the Lib Dem leaders ensured last night that there would be no rebel amendments to the budget next week, there may be concerns after Hughes warned that the coalition deal would collapse if the freedom pass and winter fuel allowance for pensioners were deemed unaffordable.

It's understood that May agreed to drop plans to undo the pensions triple lock and means test winter fuel allowance payments in return for DUP support.

The new electoral arithmetic allows Labour and Jeremy Corbyn to share credit for a string of humiliating Tory U-turns as winter fuel allowances, free school meals and foxes are saved.

Miliband used the interview to suggest he would deal with the government's welfare reforms by creating more jobs and repeatedly hinted Labour could scrap universal pensioners» benefits like winter fuel allowance.

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When asked how people would manage before compensation is provided - by increased winter fuel allowance or tax credits - he said: «I'm sorry about that.

You can offer them universal childcare or universal winter fuel allowance or universal education, but it doesn't mean they will be more willing to subsidise unemployment benefits for example.

Cameron says the coalition is keeping Labour's winter fuel allowance policy.

When we posed the option of withdrawing the state pension and winter fuel allowance from pensioners paying higher - rate tax, opinion was divided.

«The saving you could generate by moving to a means - tested winter fuel allowance would be a way of ensuring that money could be directed in a more effective way,» he argued on the Today programme.

So at a time when the public services that pensioners and others rely on are under strain, it can no longer be a priority to continue paying the winter fuel allowance to the wealthiest pensioners.

We believe the winter fuel allowance provides vital support for pensioners on middle and low incomes to combat fuel poverty.

On the pensioners» benefits policy, Miliband pointed out winter fuel allowance had been effective since its introduction by New Labour but added its future was under consideration in Labour's policy review.

And in tough times it can not be a priority to continue paying the winter fuel allowance to the richest five per cent of pensioners.

«We're supporters of the winter fuel allowance, we think it's an important benefit, but of course we'll look at all those issues,» he added.

Well - off pensioners should face cuts to their winter fuel allowance to help pay for «catastrophic» care costs, a former Liberal Democrat minister has said.

Pensioners will join the army of groups fighting government cuts tomorrow, when they march on parliament over threats to the bus pass and winter fuel allowance.

The Conservative manifesto also proposed converting the triple lock on pensions into a double lock and means testing the Winter fuel allowance.

David Cameron's staunch defence of state payouts for the elderly like the winter fuel allowance is an example.

So Conference, at a time when the public services that pensioners rely on are under such pressure, we can not continue paying the winter fuel allowance to the richest five per cent of pensioners.

Well you have the winter fuel allowance, cold weather payments and triple lock giving the highest pension increase in history.

In round two it defeats a policy to curb the benefits, such as the free bus pass and winter fuel allowance, available to richer pensioners.

While he slashed stamp duty for almost every first - time buyer (outside London) he conspicuously avoided provoking older voters; pension tax reliefs remain sacrosanct, as does the winter fuel allowance and the «triple lock» on pension increases...

That is why we lifted 1 million pensioners out of poverty; why we lifted gross income for our pensioners by more than 40 %; why we ensured that no pensioner must live on less than # 130 a week; why we introduced the winter fuel allowance, free off - peak travel on buses and free TV licences; and why we increased tax thresholds to ensure that 60 % of pensioners now pay no tax.

The Conservative manifesto proposed ending the triple lock on pensions and the winter fuel allowance, both of which are now to be retained.

«David Cameron's official spokesman warned yesterday that pensioner benefits such as the winter fuel allowance are facing cuts — undermining the Prime Minister's election pledge to preserve the handouts.

The Business Secretary also claims that David Cameron will seek to scrap or reduce the winter fuel allowance paid to pensioners from next year.

«Can it be right, when we're taking away universal benefits such as child benefit, to continue to pay a winter fuel allowance to that group of people?

We responded to this week's announcement that a future Labour government would means test the winter fuel allowance and child benefit by arguing that it is those in poverty that will suffer most if benefits become more and more targeted.

«Of course we welcome the extra money for winter fuel allowances and the help for those on pre-paid meters but he could have gone further,» said Mr. Woodley.

If mandelson does nt believe in equality of outcome at all, then does he support the NHS, jobseekers allowance, minimum wage, sure start, state pensions, national parks, winter fuel allowance?

They need to be healthy and strong enough to compete (NHS), they need to be warm (winter fuel allowance) and they need food and a decent standard of living (minimum wage and progressive taxation).

The prime minister also ditched plans to bring in a so - called demential tax, to means test the winter fuel allowance, to end the triple lock on pensions, to extend fracking and to get rid of free school lunches for the youngest pupils.

The deal is part of the government's commitment to alleviating fuel poverty and follows Alistair Darling's pledge to increase the winter fuel allowance, announced in last month's Budget.

In a major embarrassment, the Prime Minister has ditched plans to means test the winter fuel allowance, introduce a new generation of grammar schools and end the triple lock on pensions.

She said the level for means - testing pensioners» winter fuel allowance would be decided after consultation, she refused to be drawn on r new social care cap, she did not answer when asked where the money for the extra # 8bn for the NHS would come from.

Debate around the Tory manifesto focuses on death taxes, snuffed out winter fuel allowances and how much is Maggie May a Thatcherite.

Mr Cameron accused the prime minister of permitting «lies» in Labour election leaflets and challenged him to withdraw literature which claims that a Conservative government would cut benefits for the elderly such as free television licences, pension credits, the winter fuel allowance or bus passes.

That raises the spectre of the winter fuel allowance, free TV licences and bus passes for the elderly all being targeted.

Since the winter fuel allowance is the most expensive of the main pensioner benefits (costing # 2.2 bn last year) it seems equally likely that free bus passes (# 1bn) and free TV licences (# 600m) will similarly be protected.

After the DUP's Nigel Dodds welcomed his pledge to maintain the triple lock on the state pension and asked him whether he would similarly promise to preserve the winter fuel allowance as a universal benefit, Cameron replied «we will set out out plans in our manifesto».

In Harlow - as in other marginal constituencies - leaflets / letters were sent out suggesting that Tories would cut cancer treatment, close down Sure Start Centres, and take away free bus passes and the winter fuel allowances for pensioners.

And it is now close to inconceivable that May's plans to means test the winter fuel allowance, to end the triple lock on pension rises and to force all older people to pay for their social care will now go ahead.

You can now hear for yourself the arrogant and outrageous way that Harriet Harman continued to peddle scare stories about the Tories scrapping the winter fuel allowance and Sure Start Centres, when challenged by Ben Gummer on Thursday.

The winter fuel allowance will be cut for the top five per cent of pensioners.

Winter fuel allowance to be maintained at higher level.

They (actually — interest declared — we) enjoy free prescriptions, winter fuel allowance, free bus travel and a state pension that has been rising faster than wages.

Mr Miliband said he wanted to remove the winter fuel allowance for richer pensioners and would make millions in saving «in local government, in police and elsewhere», but Mr Farage retorted that this would only amount to «peanuts».