Winter Fuel Payment 2025/2026. This continues for pensioners, with payments of up to £300. Unite the union has said the latest steps from snp ministers to reinstate a winter fuel payment from 2025/2026 does not go far enough.

However in july the government announced that from this winter it would only be paid to those receiving pension credit or certain. Government says that there will be an additional 50,000 pensioners in relative poverty in 2024/2025 and 2025/2026 as a result of its changes to the winter fuel payment