What are winter fuel payments and who will lose and keep them?

Rachel Reeves announced that the payments to pensioners will no longer be universal in England and Wales

On Monday the chancellor, Rachel Reeves, announced a package of measures designed to close a £22bn hole in the public finances she said was “covered up” by the Conservative government.

Among them was a surprise removal of winter fuel payments for millions of pensioners and the abandoning of a long-delayed cap on what people pay for social care.

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