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Evening Standard
Evening Standard
Politics
Helen Corbett

One third of people back restoring winter fuel payments to all pensioners – poll

The decision to means test the payment was one of the first announcements by Chancellor Rachel Reeves after Labour’s landslide election victory last year (Jacob King/PA) - (PA Archive)

One third of Britons think winter fuel payments should be restored to all pensioners, a survey has suggested after Sir Keir Starmer’s partial U-turn on restricting the benefit.

The Prime Minister said this week that he wanted to look at widening eligibility for the payments worth up to £300 after Labour limited who could receive the payment last year.

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