Your payment may be different if you get one of five following benefits
Automatic £300 payment coming for state pensioners born before certain year
The Department for Work and Pensions will pay all State Pensioners over the age of 80 an automatic £300 payment. You’ll get either £200 if you were born between 22 September 1945 and 21 September 1959 or £300 if you were born before 22 September 1945 under the Winter Fuel Payment scheme.
Your payment may be different if you get one of five following benefits: Pension Credit or Universal Credit or income-based Jobseeker’s Allowance (JSA) or income-related Employment and Support Allowance (ESA) or Income Support.
If you do not get any of the benefits you’ll get a payment of £100 if you and the person you live with were both born between 22 September 1945 and 21 September 1959 or £100 if you were born between 22 September 1945 and 21 September 1959 but the person you live with was born before 22 September 1945.
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If you do not get any of the benefits you’ll get a payment of £200 if you were born before 22 September 1945 but the person you live with was born between 22 September 1945 and 21 September 1959.
If you do not get any of the benefits you’ll get a payment of £150 if you and the person you live with were born before 22 September 1945.
If you and your partner jointly claim any of the benefits then one of you will get a payment of either £200 if both of you were born between 22 September 1945 and 21 September 1959 or £300 if one or both of you were born before 22 September 1945.
This change will cost around £1.25 billion in England and Wales and see means-testing of the Winter Fuel Payment save around £450 million.
It comes following a Labour Party government u-turn. No pensioner will need to take any action as they will automatically receive the payment this winter.
And for those with incomes above the threshold it will be automatically recovered via HMRC.