Charities have welcomed the Scottish Government’s decision to reinstate an energy support payment for all pensioners, ...

The Government continues to urge pensioners to check if they are eligible for pension credit. Those who apply before December 21 will receive backdated payments of both pension credit and the winter ...

Social Justice Minister Shirley-Anne Somerville announces a new benefit to help pensioners who lost their winter fuel payments.

Just 42,500 applications for pension credit have been approved over the past 16 weeks - less than 5% of the 880,000 people ...

The payment will be credited to bank accounts from November 25 with the payment reference beginning with the customer’s ...

The Department for Work and Pensions says completing a 16 minute task will hand people who claim benefits a free £300 this ...

Thousands of people in West Yorkshire are at risk of missing out on winter fuel payments as they are not claiming pension ...

The DWP has confirmed that 161,800 applications for the under-claimed benefit have been processed so far, with 42,500 ...

The Department for Work and Pensions said that pensioners will start to receive their Winter Fuel Payments from this week ...

Every pensioner household in Scotland will receive a winter fuel payment next year, the Scottish government has announced.

The union has applied to the High Court for a judicial review of the government’s decision to cut the Winter Fuel Payment for ...

Unite, one of Labour’s major donors, has repeatedly called on the Government to abandon its decision to means test the winter ...