From the autumn eight million state pension households will receive an extra £300

Sterlingtimes

This appears not to be £300 per State Pensioner but rather £300 for each household where a single pensioner lives.

How would this payment be made where two or more pensioners live in one household? In my household currently, I am 66 and get a £100 Winter Fuel Payment and my father in law aged 87 gets £200. How would the extra £300 be apportioned between us?

Silvertabby

Not clear, but work on £150 each.  As it's going towards the same heating bill, does it really matter? 

Brie

maybe get FiL to move temporarily in with your non pensioned kids or neice/nephews so he can get his full whack and you can get yours??

PennyForThem_2

I think it depends on the amount of Winter Fuel Allowance you each get - it doubles.  I may be very wrong (caveat).

Sterlingtimes

PennyForThem_2 said:

I think it depends on the amount of Winter Fuel Allowance you each get - it doubles.  I may be very wrong (caveat).

I had not thought about doubling but that sounds like a likely answer. Thank you.

molerat

It is purely an extra £300 per pensioner household irrespective of how many or age.  How it is going to be paid / split has not been announced.

Sterlingtimes

molerat said:

It is purely an extra £300 per pensioner household irrespective of how many or age.  How it is going to be paid / split has not been announced.

Thank you. I will never be able to argue with my father in law that his payments belong to the household. It appears to be an enhanced Winter Fuel Payment.

Silvertabby

Sterlingtimes said:

molerat said:

It is purely an extra £300 per pensioner household irrespective of how many or age.  How it is going to be paid / split has not been announced.

Thank you. I will never be able to argue with my father in law that his payments belong to the household. It appears to be an enhanced Winter Fuel Payment.

Which part of 'winter fuel allowance' does your father in law not understand?  Unless he has his own stand-alone boiler and meter, of course these payments belong to the household!

TELLIT01

Silvertabby said:

Sterlingtimes said:

molerat said:

It is purely an extra £300 per pensioner household irrespective of how many or age.  How it is going to be paid / split has not been announced.

Thank you. I will never be able to argue with my father in law that his payments belong to the household. It appears to be an enhanced Winter Fuel Payment.

Which part of 'winter fuel allowance' does your father in law not understand?  Unless he has his own stand-alone boiler and meter, of course these payments belong to the household!

I doubt it's a case of not understanding.  More likely a case of "What's mine is mine".

missile

It is another Tory headline vote catcher. How much time & money will be wasted on administration? It would be so much easier and fairer to simply reduce the tax so that everyone would benefit.

jimpwarsop

Silvertabby said:

Sterlingtimes said:

molerat said:

It is purely an extra £300 per pensioner household irrespective of how many or age.  How it is going to be paid / split has not been announced.

Thank you. I will never be able to argue with my father in law that his payments belong to the household. It appears to be an enhanced Winter Fuel Payment.

Which part of 'winter fuel allowance' does your father in law not understand?  Unless he has his own stand-alone boiler and meter, of course these payments belong to the household!

These payments are made to the pensioner - obviously they belong to the pensioner, they are in his bank account after all.