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Gordon Brown suggests folks on prime fee of earnings tax ought to be excluded from winter gasoline

By Editorial Board Published May 21, 2025 4 Min Read
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Gordon Brown suggests folks on prime fee of earnings tax ought to be excluded from winter gasoline

Governments “have to be fair” to pensioners however there’s a case for folks on the highest fee of earnings tax to be excluded from winter gasoline funds, Gordon Brown has stated.

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Requested if he thought the U-turn was the fitting transfer, he stated: “Yeah. I think what Keir’s saying is the economy has improved and he feels that the country is in a better position, that they can afford to do better by the pensioner community.

“You have to be honest to the completely different communities in your nation once they’re struggling… and you have to be honest to pensioners.”

Mr Brown added there may be “a strong case” for winter gasoline funds for pensioners, however prompt the richest in society could possibly be exempt.

“I did bring it in as a universal benefit,” he stated.

“I think there is a case, for example, for people on the top rate of tax not receiving it, but that’s something the government has got to decide.

“That was within the Labour 2015 manifesto, so I feel the federal government’s received selections to make… however to me, the difficulty is no person ought to be pushed into poverty in the event that they’re doing the fitting factor.

“Nobody who’s working hard or nobody who’s served the country well over their lifetime should be pushed into poverty if we can avoid it, and I believe that that’s what he’s [Keir] is really thinking about, a fairness guarantee for pensioners.”

Sir Keir introduced that he would “look” at making extra pensioners eligible throughout PMQs earlier on Wednesday.

He advised MPs: “I recognise that people are still feeling the pressure of the cost of living crisis, including pensioners.

“Because the economic system improves, we wish to be sure that folks really feel these enhancements of their days as their lives go ahead.

“And that is why we want to ensure that as we go forward, more pensioners are eligible for winter fuel payment.”

Whereas it seems a full reversal won’t be carried out, the Treasury might increase the brink at which pensioners can qualify for winter funds, which is at the moment £11,500.

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The choice follows vital backlash from Labour MPs, who blamed the coverage on the social gathering’s poor efficiency on the native elections this month.

Means-testing the winter gasoline funds, value as much as £300, was one of many first insurance policies introduced in by the Labour authorities.

Total, the variety of pensioners eligible for the cost was slashed from 11.4 million to 1.5 million.

The federal government argued it could save £1.5bn every year and put the general public funds below management, after claiming the Tories left behind a larger-than-expected fiscal black gap of £22bn.

Nonetheless, within the aftermath of the Could native elections – which noticed Labour lose 189 council seats – extra high-profile social gathering figures started talking out towards the coverage.

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