State pensioners born before certain year get instant £100 payment increase
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State pensioners born before certain year get instant £100 payment increaseUnder the new rules, you need to be claiming a qualifying benefit such as Pension Credit.NewsChristian Abbott
Audience Writer12:22, 03 Jun 2025State pensioners born before certain year get instant £100 payment increase State pensioners have been warned the exact amount you can receive in Winter Fuel
Payments will vary depending on your birth year and potentially other circumstances.
Previously, the winter fuel payment was automatically given to all state pensioners. However, under the new rules, you need to be claiming a qualifying benefit such as Pension Credit.
For those who are of state pension age but under 80, meaning born on or before September 22, 1958, and qualify, a £200 payment will be received. And the Department for Work and Pensions (
DWP ) says those aged over 80 - born September 23, 1944 or earlier - will receive £300.
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It comes as Sir Keir Starmer has confirmed that he wants more pensioners to be eligible for winter fuel payments after a backlash against one of the most unpopular policies of the Labour
Party government.
Article continues below The prime minister indicated in the Commons that he would look again at the £11,500 threshold over which pensioners are no longer eligible for the allowance.
At prime minister’s questions on Wednesday, Starmer told MPs: “I recognise that people are still feeling the pressure of the cost of living crisis, including pensioners, as the economy
improves.
“We want to make sure people feel those improvements as their lives go forward. That is why we want to ensure that as we go forward, more pensioners are eligible for winter fuel payments.”
Article continues below “Because of those decisions, the economy is beginning to improve,” he said, citing growth figures and interest rate cuts, plus the hoped-for impact of recent trade
arrangements with India, the US and EU.
“As the economy improves, we want to take measures that will impact on people’s lives, and therefore we will look at the threshold, but that will have to be part of the fiscal event,” he
added.