Martin Lewis says winter fuel U-turn 'huge relief'

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Martin Lewis said the government's decision to U-turn the winter fuel payment is a "huge relief" for pensioners. Rachel Reeves confirmed on Monday that pensioners earning less than £35k will be eligible to claim winter fuel payments this coming winter.    Report by Kennedyl. Like us on Facebook at http://www.facebook.com/itn and follow us on Twitter at http://twitter.com/itn

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00:00A huge amount of relief. The two big problems with the means testing as it was is the threshold

00:05was too low at around £11,600 last winter. And the way they did the means testing meant even

00:12many eligible, vulnerable pensioners were missing out because it was linked to pension credit.

00:16The new system where everybody automatically gets it and it's clawed back through the tax system if

00:21you earn over £35,000 solves both of those problems. It is a massive improvement. And I

00:29think millions of pensioners across the country will be going.

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