Starmer says he wants to “more retirees” for fuel payments in the winter in circulation

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Sir Kerr Starmer said that he wanted to be more retirees qualified for fuel payments in the winter, in a clear rotation in one of the most popular policies in the presidency of the Labor Party leader.

“We want to make sure that with our progress, more retirees are eligible for fuel payments in the winter,” the UK Prime Minister told MPS on Wednesday. “We will make decisions only we can bear.”

“We will look at this as part of a financial event,” he added. The next budget will be in the fall.

The Labor Party in the local elections received this month, with the government’s decision to cut fuel payments in the aforementioned winter as one of the most important frustrations raised by the voters.

Starmer comments determine a sharp opposite just two weeks after Downing Street I was excluded Make changes to paying fuel in the winter and increasing the income threshold by about 11,500 pounds, which retired people are no longer qualified to obtain the allowance.

However, the government faced a constant sensation due to its decision last year, shortly after reaching power to examine 1.5 billion pounds in fuel payments in the winter for retirees in the United Kingdom.

The policy was stripped of benefiting from everyone except for the poorest retirees and hit many people at low low income to obtain retirement credit. The value of fuel payments in the winter is up to 300 pounds annually, depending on the individual circumstances.

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