MSE News: Don't forget to claim your Winter Fuel Payment

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If you're aged 62 or over, you could be due up to £300 from the Government to help cover the cost of your energy bills...

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Don't forget to claim your Winter Fuel Payment




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I think the govt should pay this in Feb/March as I have heard old dears using this money to buy Christmas presents and when the winter quarter bill comes through the post, they don't have the money.

susan1

I wouldn't call 62yr olds "old dears"

Richie-from-the-Boro

ScarletMarble wrote: »

I think the govt should pay this in Feb/March as I have heard old dears using this money to buy Christmas presents and when the winter quarter bill comes through the post, they don't have the money.

- the good intention is to stop people dying or becoming seriously ill
- statistically 20,000 65 year olds die in England & Wales each winter



Delaying it at all would add to the above figures, and that mortality rate would surely multiply by each extra cold week you delay it.