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Campaign to protect winter fuel support must go on

Posted on: 11th September 2024

Local MP, Andrew George, vowed to keep up the pressure on the Government following yesterday’s effort in parliament to block plans to withdraw the winter fuel allowance from millions of pensioners – including thousands in Cornwall.   The Commons motion, originally tabled by the Liberal Democrats, aimed to block the removal of the payments – worth […]

“We’ll challenge Labour’s Winter Fuel Payment cut” Liberal Democrat MPs table Commons motion to halt benefit cut – over 22,000 pensioners in Cornwall & Scilly set to suffer this winter

Posted on: 30th August 2024

The Liberal Democrats have table a Commons motion to block government plans to cut Winter Fuel Payments pensioners 122,230 pensioners across Cornwall and Isles of Scilly (20,621 in St Ives constituency) at risk of losing the £300 payment this winter According to estimates by Age UK, over 22,000 (22,221) pensioners in Cornwall “who badly need this money to stay […]