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Winter Fuel and COL - Can anyone clarify please?

Wellsbells · 2022-11-01 20:15:46

We are fully paid up UK resident pensioners, i.e. meet the Gov's two eligibility criteria. We are in a fortunate position and not in receipt of any benefits. OH is 70 and has received WFP for the past few years. Each year the payment has always been £200. This year all media headlines seem to agree that pensioners who…

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calcotti Posts: 15,696 Forumite

3 November 2022 at 2:49PM

The household gets the same amount whether or not single or a couple. You could see it as a pensioner you have a WFP entitlement but that your individual entitlement is reduced if you are part of a couple (whereas means tested benefit entitlement to a couple is normally made as one payment to just one of them).

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