Winter fuel payment should be restored for NI pensioners – Lyons

Communities Minister Gordon Lyons said he wanted the winter fuel payment to be restored for pensioners in NI (Liam McBurney/PA) - (PA Wire)

Stormont’s Communities Minister Gordon Lyons has said he will be recommending that pensioners in Northern Ireland have their winter fuel payment restored following a U-turn by the UK Government.

Mr Lyons said the details of Chancellor Rachel Reeves’ decision were still to be worked out, but added that the “most simple and straightforward” approach seemed to be to replicate the same approach in Northern Ireland.