Winter Fuel Payment 2014/2015
alanq
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I will be eligible to claim the Winter Fuel Payment for the coming Winter but am not yet receiving a state pension or benefits. Looking at the form it says "Please fill in your name, address or date of birth" and "If you fill in your date of birth on the claim form, we need to see your original birth certificate". Elsewhere it says "You will need to send your original birth certificate with this form". (My emphases)
I can provide a National Insurance Number and have been sending tax returns for umpteen years so they already know my date of birth. (unless I began planning a con 40+ years ago!). My personal information can also be found on credit reference agency files.
I have had experience of mail getting lost in the post and of forms sent to HMRC being returned in tatters so I am very reluctant to send an original birth certificate. A certified copy perhaps.
Has anyone tried claiming by phone? Does one always have to post an original birth certificate or not?
https://www.gov.uk/government/publications/winter-fuel-payment-claim-form
I can provide a National Insurance Number and have been sending tax returns for umpteen years so they already know my date of birth. (unless I began planning a con 40+ years ago!). My personal information can also be found on credit reference agency files.
I have had experience of mail getting lost in the post and of forms sent to HMRC being returned in tatters so I am very reluctant to send an original birth certificate. A certified copy perhaps.
Has anyone tried claiming by phone? Does one always have to post an original birth certificate or not?
https://www.gov.uk/government/publications/winter-fuel-payment-claim-form
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Your birth certificate isn't original, it is a copy of an entry in thr Official register. You can get any number of these (if you pay). What they mean is a photocopy is no good.
The government website says you need to fill in a form if the payment is not made automatically.
The Winter Fuel Payment is automatic (subject to Ts&Cs) when a person is receiving a state pension or certain benefits. A man who has reached the age at which a woman can draw state pension is eligible for WFP. That is currently around 62 but a man cannot draw a state pension until the age of 65.
So when they say 'original', they mean not a photocopy.
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I'm having a job working out when my husband qualifies. He's 62 soon, but according to his birth date, he doesn't qualify till he's around 64.
If though, he can't receive it until a woman reaches state pension age, does this mean me? I'm 56 and don't reach pension age until I'm 66? So will he not get it until then? I just find the whole thing so confusing.
I've just realized too, that the utility bills are in my name only.
Thanks,
Candy.
https://www.gov.uk/winter-fuel-payment/eligibility
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Imagine someone holding forth on biology whose only knowledge of the subject is the Book of British Birds, and you have a rough idea of what it feels like to read Richard Dawkins on theology: Terry Eagleton
I hope that flatterey is sincere
No flattery intended! I hadn't noticed your post further up the thread
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Imagine someone holding forth on biology whose only knowledge of the subject is the Book of British Birds, and you have a rough idea of what it feels like to read Richard Dawkins on theology: Terry Eagleton
That's neither here nor there. Desite it being called a 'Winter Fuel Payment', it's basically just a lump sum paid into eligible pensioners bank accounts - you can spend it on whatever you want