Urgent!
The Government’s decision to take the Winter Fuel Allowance from pensioners who are not in receipt of Pension Credit (or some other means tested allowance) will have a terrible effect on all pensioners who have depended on it in the past to heat their homes during winter. But it would be especially disastrous for disabled pensioners who are often struggling to make ends meet even during the summer.
Excess winter deaths due to living in cold homes in 2023 were 4,950 (ONS stats for England and Wales). That’s 4,950 older and disabled people who should never have died.
Meanwhile MPs between 2018 and 2023 claimed over £1 million for heating their second homes.
Although Poor Rachel Reeves who is happy for older people to freeze to death only claimed £1,296 for accommodation fuel costs
Please ask your MP to vote against this decision on Tuesday 10th of September. This means there are only a few days left, so please contact your MP urgently.
We need you to contact your MP and ask them to attend this meeting.
If you are not sure who your MP is, you can find them by putting your postcode in the They Work for You website
Link here
https://www.theyworkforyou.com/mp/
Please send them an email now.
