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Ed Miliband says Reeves deserves credit for winter fuel payment U-turn
Energy secretary says chancellor did not make mistake in initial decision to remove benefit from most pensioners
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theguardian.com
Winter fuel payments threshold to rise to £35,000, Rachel Reeves announces
Change means about 7.5 million pensioners in England and Wales who lost out on payment will have it restored
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dailymail.co.uk
Reeves' humiliation on winter fuel as Labour restores payments to 9m
Chancellor Rachel Reeves has announced that more than three-quarters of older people will get the allowance - worth up to £300 - this winter.
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Reeves struggles to explain the genius of Labour’s winter fuel payment U-turn | John Crace
Chancellor reluctantly tries to smooth things over but looks as if she can’t quite believe some of the nonsense she is saying
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After U-turn Rachel Reeves claims she was 'right' to cut handout
The Chancellor said all pensioners with incomes of less than £35,000 will get the payment this winter following a huge public backlash over last year's cuts.
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Ed Miliband insists Labour 'won't apologise' for winter fuel chaos
The Energy Secretary repeated the Government's claim that cutting the handout - worth up to £300 a household - last winter was needed to 'stabilise the economy'.
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telegraph.co.uk
Labour won’t apologise for winter fuel chaos, says Miliband
‘We’ve listened to the people,” says Net Zero Secretary after Rachel Reeves’s U-turn on benefit cut
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Ed Miliband says Reeves deserves credit for winter fuel payment U-turn
Energy secretary says chancellor did not make mistake in initial decision to remove benefit from most pensioners
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PM joins Rachel Reeves in refusing to apologise for winter fuel chaos
The Prime Minister insisted it was 'the right decision' to originally axe the handouts, worth up to £300 a household, for around 10 million retirees last winter.
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Reeves rules out disability benefit cuts U-turn but says rules may be tweaked
Chancellor says criteria for getting personal independence payment are being reviewed