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The level of the winter fuel payments means testing will increase this winter, the chancellor said.

Reeves said she had to make “difficult decisions” last year to “restore sound public finances”, but they are now on “firmer footing”.

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Winter fuel payments will be restored this winter, but wealthier pensioners will not get them, ministers have said.

Torsten Bell, the pensions minister, ruled out restoring universal payments to all pensioners. “Most people — 95 per cent of people — agree that it’s not a good idea that we have a system paying a few hundred pounds to millionaires. And so we’re not going to be continuing with that,” he told the work and pensions committee.

“Is there any prospect of a universal winter fuel payment? The answer is no.”

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