Rachel Reeves tells Labour MPs that axing allowance for all but poorest pensioners will help plug £22bn hole in finances
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Britain would have faced a run on the pound, higher interest rates and an economic crunch had Chancellor Rachel Reeves not scrapped a winter fuel payment for 10 million pensioners to fill a hole in the public finances, House of Commons Leader Lucy Powell said.
Rachel Reeves tells Labour MPs that axing allowance for all but poorest pensioners will help plug £22bn hole in finances
Likely 4% pension rise next year could help defuse row facing chancellor over winter fuel payment
Lucy Powell says MPs will vote on plans on Tuesday next week as government plans to limit payments to only poorest pensioners
Some Labour MPs are uneasy over the move to scrap winter fuel payments for millions of pensioners.
Chancellor tells meeting of parliamentary Labour party there will be more difficult decisions to come
Three pensioners tell us what they think about the vote and their concerns about the coming winter
Furore over cuts to the pensioner benefit is all the more potent when the left, right and centre can all find reasons to oppose the policy
Furore over cuts to the pensioner benefit is all the more potent when the left, right and centre can all find reasons to oppose the policy
Scottish Tory leader Douglas Ross accused John Swinney of considering 'public sector pen-pushers more important than freezing pensioners'.