What do people think about the removal of winter fuel payments for millions of pensioners?

Many people across Newark have called the government’s cuts to winter benefits previously available to all pensioners ‘disgusting’.

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00:00I think it's disgusting. They should have put that in the manifesto to say that they were

00:12going to cut the winter fuel payment. I rely on that, you know, to exist, to be quite honest.

00:24Well I think that possibly, although I may not particularly agree with all this government

00:29is doing, we have to cut back in some ways. And there are a lot of people getting the

00:34winter fuel allowance who don't really need it.

00:36Agreed.

00:37Well I'm a pensioner, whether I get it or not is an interesting concept, but I do think

00:42what they've done is right. Because over the years, everybody's got that. There are a lot

00:48of people who've got it and just use it as pocket money. The people that needed it, you

00:53know, they don't always get it. So I think what they've done is definitely right. I know

00:58people that are well off and they got it and they put it away. So no, they're right.

01:09I think it should be available for people that are on benefits, basically that need

01:15the support and maybe people that are on higher incomes, less so.

01:21I think it's very bad because we need the warmth. We do need warmth, especially our

01:26future young children. They've got to be kept warm and they've got to be showered.

01:31The fuel bill, I think they ought to do something about the fuel bill.

01:35I think taking the winter fuel payments away is bad because there's lots of pensioners

01:39that don't get pension credits and things that still struggle. And you're taking money

01:44away from the poorest people. It's wrong.

01:47Just feel disappointed. I think it's quite important for pensioners to have a little

01:51bit of help out. We've worked all our life and now at the end of our life, we're taking

01:55all our pleasures away.