Responding to a Welsh Government Minister saying the Winter Fuel Payment cut ‘risks pushing some pensioners into fuel poverty’, Joel James MS, Shadow Minister for Social Partnership and Social Justice, said:
It is tragic that the Labour Government has decided to scrap the winter fuel payment for so many pensioners who rely on this to see them through the winter months.
This cut is short sighted and will have a disproportionate effect on some of the most vulnerable.
The Labour Welsh Government should scrap their £120 million vanity project of more politicians and focus on keeping pensioners warm this winter.
ENDS
