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The Pension Age Winter Heating Payment will be means-tested.(Image: Getty Images)<\/p>\nEXCLUSIVE: The claw back figure is contained in a report by the Scottish Fiscal CommissionThe Pension Age Winter Heating Payment will be means-tested.(Image: Getty Images)<\/p>\n
Wealthier pensioners will have \u00a330m in winter fuel payments taken off them this year by the SNP Government<\/a>.<\/p>\n The claw back figure will rise by over 50% by the end of the decade as pension incomes creep over the eligibility threshold<\/a>.<\/p>\n Under the new Pension Age Winter Heating Payment, older people will receive between \u00a3203.40 and \u00a3305.10 depending on age<\/a>.<\/p>\n But the SNP Government mirrored the UK approach by axing the payment for households with a taxable income of over \u00a335,000.<\/p>\n Pensioners on more than this amount can opt out of receiving the cash or they will have the payment \u201crecovered\u201d.<\/p>\n Figures produced by the Scottish Fiscal Commission show the spending on PAWHP will rise from \u00a3187m this year to \u00a3225m by 2030\/31.<\/p>\n At the same time, the projected clawback jumps from \u00a330m this year to \u00a347m over the same period.<\/p>\n The SFC estimated that around 16% of the eligible pension-age population will have their payments recovered in 2025-26, rising to 21%.<\/p>\n They forecasted that the number of payments recovered will rise from 169,000 to 234,000.<\/p>\n The means-test is intended to ensure better-off pensioners do not receive the support.<\/p>\n Labour Chancellor Rachel Reeves was blasted last year over plans to strip around 90% of households of their winter fuel payment.<\/p>\n She eventually backtracked and settled on a \u00a335,000 cut off point.<\/p>\n The payment is devolved and the Scottish Government mirrored the Westminster approach.<\/p>\n READ MORE: New Jeremy Corbyn party poses ‘more of a threat’ to Greens than Scottish Labour<\/a>READ MORE: Sexual crime in Scotland rises as number of reported rapes soars<\/a><\/p>\n This is a breaking news story – we’ll bring you updates, pictures and video as it happens.<\/p>\n For the latest news and breaking news visit: https:\/\/www.dailyrecord.co.uk\/news\/politics\/<\/a><\/p>\n Here you can get your must-see news, features, videos and pictures throughout the day from the Daily Record, Sunday Mail and Record Online.<\/p>\n Get all the big headlines, pictures, analysis, opinion and video on the stories that matter to you.<\/p>\n