EXCLUSIVE: Tory MP Greg Smith attacked Chancellor Rachel Reeves over Labour's war on pensioners after the Winter Fuel Payment cut announcement this week.

Sir Keir Starmer's party under pressure to reverse decision to axe winter fuel payments as energy bills to rise.

RACHEL Reeves is to try to defuse the winter fuel allowance outcry — by urging poor OAPs to claim pension credit. The Chancellor is getting behind a “week of action” to encourage its uptake. Famili…

The Chancellor was warned that her move, announced this week, would plunge thousands of lower income pensioners into 'fuel poverty' by forcing them to choose between 'heating or eating'.

EXCLUSIVE: The cost of Government support for pensioners is set to increase by over a third over the next few years.

The new Chancellor announced the payment - worth up to £300 a year - will be means-tested, meaning that pensioners with incomes as low as £1,000 a month will no longer qualify.

Around 10 million over 65s are set to lose out on the £250 payment as the new Government restricts the benefit to only those receiving pension credit.

Chancellor Rachel Reeves had hoped to strongarm the policy - which will deny an estimated 10million pensioners annual help with energy bills worth up to £300 through Parliament.

Some said they felt 'totally cheated' by new winter fuel rules and energy price rises which Labour have justified by blaming the last government.

I was genuinely shocked when chancellor Rachel Reeves announced that she was scrapping the winter fuel payment for 10million pensioners. Her decision looks worse by the day.

An expert has suggested the UK could see rioting in the streets if the pension age is raised to 71 as some think-tanks are suggest the move is necessary.

The Work and Pensions Secretary insisted it was not 'in our national psyche to start rioting' or 'burning things' over reforms to the retirement age.

The Prime Minister held a 'war game' session with Chancellor Rishi Sunak on Wednesday to run through possible options for averting another nationwide lockdown.

Government is refusing to publish assessment of winter fuel payment cut

PM sought to pin blame on inheritance from Tories for winter fuel payments axe in No 10 speech.

The Conservative backbencher provoked criticism from all political parties after he claimed struggling Britons only use food banks because they 'can't budget' and 'can't cook a meal from scratch'.

Silver Voices' Dennis Reed warns that if Labour gets away with cutting Winter Fuel Allowance, they won't stop their attack on pensioners there.

The tax on high-value properties was due to be rolled out in next month's Budget to help fund the Prime Minister's promise to 'level-up' parts of the country starved of investment.

A Dorset woman says she does not know how she will survive if an appeal against the government's changes to the state pension age changes is rejected. | ITV News West Country

The Prime Minister visited a wind farm in Wales today as he promoted Labour's plans to establish Great British Energy - a state-owned clean energy firm.

EXCLUSIVE: Bill and Mary Donaldson have dedicated their lives to helping others who struggle to heat their homes and afford to feed themselves - but this year they are worried

He said taxes were rising across the 36 leading nations of the OECD, including the United Kingdom, as people lived longer into old age.

‘We’ve waited long enough for justice,’ say campaigners demanding the Government acts on long-awaited report into pensions saga

The warning has been sounded by leading charities who say it will cause real hardship and threaten health of vulnerable people who cannot afford to keep warm.

A survey has found that 67 per cent of those questioned were aware of the Chancellor's intention to means-test the benefits for the first time

While in opposition Labour leader Sir Keir Starmer railed against the "huge injustice" Waspi women had suffered. It's a different story now he's in power.

The Daily Express asked the Treasury and DWP to confirm whether any impact assessment had been carried out ahead of the Winter Fuel Payment pensioner cash grab Both refused to cooperate despite a...

I just signed the petition calling on Chancellor Rachel Reeves not to scrap the Winter Fuel Allowance for MILLIONS of struggling pensioners - just as energy bills are about to go up again! Will you...

Officers swooped on two sites in the Welsh countryside - Briton Ferry, in Swansea, and Carmarthenshire - after the prices of dogs rocketed during lockdown.

  CROSS POSTED ON BYLINE.COM Many angry  50s women  frustrated they can’t get a pension for up to six years – have the power at the ballot box to knock out the MPs who voted for th…

STATE PENSION age increases have harshly impacted 1950s women who found they must wait a further six years before claiming their money as one WASPI woman revealed she doesn't receive any benefits.

Robbing pensioners of their winter fuel allowance is cruel - they deserve better than this, says Esther McVey.

She was forced to sell her home and is still paying off huge credit card bills racked up to make ends meet, and asks: "How the hell am I supposed to live now?”

The Department for Work and Pensions owes millions of pensioners compensation because of a string of state failures.

Analysis of workers' ages over the past 30 years suggests that as more people keep working after passing the state pension age, by 2066 almost half of those in their late 60s will still be employed.

It's impossible to plan properly for retirement if you don't know when you'll get your state pension. Unfortunately, most people have no idea because the government won't tell us.

CHANGES to the state pension age have meant more 65-year-olds are in work, and campaigners have warned they are often in unsuitable jobs.