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Lib Dems will attempt to reverse Labour’s decision to scrap winter fuel payments, Ed Davey says
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8/29/2024
Lib Dems to challenge Labour's winter fuel payment cut, says Ed DaveySource: BBC Radio 4
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There are a number of ways the system currently withdraws benefits from very wealthy people.
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We could look at that. But let's be clear what's happening with this decision by
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the government. There are going to be millions of pensioners who are really vulnerable and poor,
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people who are eligible for pension credit but don't get it. There's nearly a million of those.
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Then there's several million pensioners who aren't eligible for pension credit but are really
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struggling. Some of the organisations like Citizens Advice and others have worried very
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much about those. We share those worries. The government has not put forward anything to help
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those people. That's why I think they need to think again and why Liberal Democrat MPs, all of
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us, have signed what's called a prayer to try to trigger a vote and a debate in Parliament to get
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the government to think again.
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