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

Campaigners have said this threshold is too low, and will put two million vulnerable pensioners at risk of missing out.

Shirley-Anne Somerville is expected to announce a new benefit to help pensioners who lost their winter fuel payments.

Unite is pushing ahead with its legal action against the government in a bid to overturn cuts to the winter fuel payment for ...

Scots missing out on the benefit this year will receive the extra cash in winter 2025.

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

Social Justice Secretary Shirley-Anne Somerville announced the news in a statement to the Scottish parliament on Thursday.

All pensioners in Scotland will receive a winter fuel payment once again from next year, the Scottish government has ...

The devolved Scottish Government has announced that all pensioners in Scotland will receive a winter heating payment in ...

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