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Has the government ‘scrapped’ cost of living support for pensioners?

Has the government ‘scrapped’ cost of living support for pensioners?

So we can’t find specific evidence that further Pensioner Cost of Living Payments were planned, ahead of the general election, for the coming winter, that the incoming Labour government subsequently “scrapped”.


Prime Minister’s Questions fact checked: 4 September 2024

Prime Minister’s Questions fact checked: 4 September 2024

After Ms Reeves announced the £22 billion shortfall, the Institute for Fiscal Studies (IFS) said that many of the challenges Labour outlined were “entirely predictable”, but also that the in-year financial pressures identified did “genuinely appear to be greater than could be discerned from the outside”.