Department for Work and Pensions written question – answered at on 25 April 2016.
To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions, what estimate he has made of the number of people who are eligible to receive the winter fuel payment and have voluntarily chosen not to receive it in each of the last three years.
Details of the number payments made to individuals and households are publicly available on the GOV.UK website.
https://www.gov.uk/government/collections/winter-fuel-payments-caseload-and-household-figures
The voluntary relinquishments requests for the past three years are as follows:-
2013 139
2014 78
2015 82
Yes1 person thinks so
No1 person thinks not
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