Scottish ministers pledge universal winter fuel payments for pensioners
by Libby Brooks Scotland correspondent from World news | The Guardian on (#6SJFG)
SNP says heating payment will go to every single Scottish pensioner' from next year
The Scottish government will reintroduce universal winter fuel payments for pensioners, in a bid to outstrip Labour ahead of the Holyrood elections.
Nearly a million pensioners will benefit from the SNP government's mitigation after the Labour UK chancellor, Rachel Reeves, announced her controversial policy to means-test winter fuel payments for older people, which is believed to be partly responsible for Scottish Labour's poll slump since the general election.
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