Culture secretary defends winter fuel payment cut: ‘No pensioner will be worse off this year’

Minister defends winter fuel payment cut: 'No pensioner will be worse off this winterSource: Itv Petson

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00:00We haven't taken £300 from vulnerable pensioners.

00:04What we're doing is taking the tough decisions to stabilise the economy

00:08because it's working class people who pay the price.

00:11If you don't, as the very many families who are paying

00:14hundreds of pounds more in rent or mortgages

00:17because of the economic chaos that we had in recent years

00:20under the Conservative government will tell you.

00:22And we are protecting the vulnerable through that process

00:25as you would expect a Labour government to do.

00:28We've extended the Household Support Fund.

00:30We've got a huge drive to get the poorest pensioners onto pension credit.

00:34No pensioner will be worse off this winter than they were last winter.

00:38That's the difference that a Labour government makes.

00:41We're making hard choices but they're fairer choices.