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Watch live: Rachel Reeves delivers her much-anticipated spending review on Wednesday (11 June) as the chancellor pledges to make working people “better off”.
The spending review comes after the government announced a massive expansion of who will receive winter fuel payments in a major U-turn following months of backlash.
After weeks of speculation over what the changes would look like, it has now been confirmed that 9 million pensions will be eligible for the payment - a huge uplift from the 1.5 million pensioners who received the payment in winter 2024-25.
