Pensioners say 'we have been betrayed' as they protest winter fuel payment cut
manchestereveningnews.co.ukDozens of pensioners have turned out at Wigan bus station in a protest over the government’s controversial cut to the winter fuel allowance for pensioners.
The move by the in-coming chancellor Rachel Reeves to exclude about 10 million UK pensioners from the £300 allowance has overshadowed Sir Keir Starmer’s first three months as prime minister.
In Wigan, it is emerging as the hottest issue both on the streets of the town and even in the council chamber. At September’s full meeting of the local authority, councillors agreed to write to the Government to ask for the threshold restricting the winter payments to to be raised.
Wigan's Labour-controlled council has responded by advising those people eligible for pension credit who have not applied it to do so.
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