READ MORE Hobbycraft shutting 9 of 115 stores with full list announced <\/a><\/p>\nIf you earn \u00a330,000 a year and your partner earns \u00a340,000, one person would keep their share of the Winter Fuel Payment but the other would pay it back.<\/p>\n
You can check if your Winter Fuel Payment will be clawed back by HMRC on the GOV.UK website. Katherine Ford, ICAEW Technical Manager, Tax, said: \u201cPensioners have until Monday 15 September 2025 to contact HMRC to opt out of the Winter Fuel Payments if their total income for tax purposes is more than \u00a335,000.<\/p>\n
\u201cHMRC have a useful online tool to check if income is over this amount. If a person with income over \u00a335,000 receives the payment, it will be recovered automatically through their pay as you earn tax code for 2026\/2027, unless they are in self-assessment, in which case it will be added by HMRC to their tax return for 2025\/2026.\u201c<\/p>\n
If you do need to claim, you will be able to apply by post from September 15, or by phone from October 15. Winter Fuel Payments are worth \u00a3200 for eligible households, or \u00a3300 for eligible households with someone aged over 80.<\/p>\n
Your eligibility will be based on your age by the end of the qualifying week. You won’t be eligible if you were in hospital getting free treatment for the whole of the qualifying week, and the year before that, or if you were in prison during the qualifying week.<\/p>\n
You also won’t be eligible if you lived in a care home for the whole time from June 23, 2025 or earlier and you claim certain benefits including Universal Credit<\/a> and Pension Credit. In Scotland, the Winter Fuel Payment has been replaced with a new Pension Age Winter Heating Payment.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"The Department for Work and Pensions has issued a warning for state pensioners over 66 to act in…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":86143,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[14],"tags":[84,4176,2218,1447,4174,4175,56,54,55,43393],"class_list":["post-86142","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-personal-finance","tag-business","tag-finance","tag-hmrc","tag-pensioners","tag-personal-finance","tag-personalfinance","tag-uk","tag-united-kingdom","tag-unitedkingdom","tag-winter-fuel-payment"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/86142","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=86142"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/86142\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/86143"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=86142"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=86142"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=86142"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}