Almost eight in ten voters believe Labour should ditch its winter fuel payments policy.
The party is under increasing pressure to reverse slashing the subsidy for 10 million pensioners amid a brewing backbench rebellion and a threat of ministerial resignations over more sweeping welfare cuts.
A YouGov poll discovered that less than one in ten (7 percent) of voters believe Labour should keep its policy unchanged.
A third said it should return to the previous system, where all pensioners receive Winter Fuel Payments regardless of their income.
Some 44 percent said it should stay means-tested but that eligibility should be widened to include more low-income households.
The results will pile pressure on Sir Keir Starmer to climb down over the cuts to the payments, worth up to £300 a year for vulnerable pensioners.
He said the Government will look at raising the income threshold (£11,800) to qualify for the payments.
However, he said this would be done at the earliest at the next ‘fiscal event’, which is the October Budget.
It means any change may not come into force until the following year, meaning lower-income pensioners potentially face another winter of choosing between ‘heating or eating’.
Chancellor Rachel Reeves said last July that stripping pensioners of the allowance was necessary to save £1.5 billion a year to help plug the £22 billion ‘black hole’ in the public finances she claims the Tories left behind.
But experts say it may save as little as two-thirds of this.
Every time see Starmer’s face I feel sick to the bone. Get this imbecile out. He’s decimating the country, and what a disgrace to believe that £11,800 is a living wage – Keir Starmer and his friends should be made to live on this amount for however long they have in office.
MPs should be on an average wage for the area that they represent, with no expenses, it’s the only way they will know how it feels to live on the breadline.
It’s also time for them to stop spending millions on illegal immigration, but millions upon millions are spent on illegal immigrants who have never given anything to this country, yet pensioners, most of whom have worked all their lives get screwed.
People on benefits get a £10 Christmas perk to help with the little extras at Christmas, which would go towards very little for Christmas extras.
These comedians (our government) had to plan what they would do once they got into power, and the first bright idea they had was to cut the Winter Fuel Allowance. Now after a year of being in power, with the peril of losing their seats, the nodding donkeys (Labour backbenchers) have discovered that it’s not a good idea.
However, Starmer won’t admit it was a mistake, and he will infer that partly because he cut Winter Fuel Allowance, the funds saved would have made the economy better, so he can now change it.
Stupid is as stupid does. Our government need to stop their excuses and just get on and do it – the Winter Fuel Allowance was eliminated instantaneously, so it can be reinstated in the same way and at the same pace, but spineless comrade Starmer is now playing for time, extending the ban by another winter, and let’s face it, Starmer lies, so if I was a pensioner I wouldn’t hold my breath until the money was actually in my bank account.
Of course, Starmer is the biggest liar on Earth and I don’t believe that he will reinstate the Winter Fuel Allowance. He will delay it as long as possible with his pitiful excuses.
He should quit caving into hotel visitors and stop sending money to other nations for no reason at all, along with his similarly inexperienced group of amateur MPs. Pensioners fear another chilly winter as a result of our government’s vile, cruel, and disgusting behaviour, while our government is throwing money away like confetti.
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