Nearly 75,000 retirees have applied for pension credit as part of a mass scramble to hold on to their winter fuel payments, ...

A Scottish couple have launched a legal bid to try to overturn the scrapping of the universal winter fuel benefit for all ...

The government has come under fire from all quarters for the cut, with Labour members at the party's conference voting in favour of a motion calling for ministers to reverse their cut to the winter ...

A Scottish couple are seeking to take the Scottish and UK governments to court over the cut to the winter fuel payment.

Fuel poverty campaigners have redoubled their calls to Labour to urgently reverse cuts to the Winter Fuel Payment. It comes ...

Peter and Florence Fanning, of Coatbridge, North Lanarkshire, have raised proceedings against the Scottish and UK ministers.

Those who reached state pension age before April 6 2016 will be on the old basic state pension and today Martin Lewis said ...

Analysis of official figures shows that in some parts of England and Wales more than 30 per cent are aged 66 or over and get ...

DWP figures released on Friday show the government received around 74,400 pension credit claims in the eight weeks since July ...

Brits who still think they are eligible for the Winter Fuel Payment might need to check again after the Department for Work and Pensions revealed there are four strict requirements ...

DWP has spoken out after a legal challenge north of the border in Scotland, which could protect the Winter Fuel Allowance.

The government has insisted the poorest pensioners will still get the money and Age Uk says people need to 'not give up' ...