{"id":2990,"date":"2025-06-16T15:36:45","date_gmt":"2025-06-16T15:36:45","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.imadscotlandgroup.com\/media\/?p=2990"},"modified":"2025-06-16T15:36:45","modified_gmt":"2025-06-16T15:36:45","slug":"scottish-pensioners-to-get-same-winter-fuel-payments-as-those-in-england","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.imadscotlandgroup.com\/media\/scottish-pensioners-to-get-same-winter-fuel-payments-as-those-in-england\/","title":{"rendered":"Scottish pensioners to get same winter fuel payments as those in England"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>From STV News: &#8216;John Swinney has guaranteed pensioners will receive the same winter fuel payments as those in the rest of the UK following a major policy U-turn by the UK Government.<\/p>\n<p>The First Minister says around \u00a3119m is expected to come to Holyrood from Westminster to help deliver the support this year.<\/p>\n<p>The Scottish Government had already pledged to provide \u00a3100 to all pensioners north of the border \u2013 with those on pension credit receiving up to \u00a3305 depending on their age, regardless of what the UK Government decided.<\/p>\n<p>But following a U-turn by Chancellor Rachel Reeves, Swinney says the Scottish Government will now match the new UK-wide payments.&#8217;<\/p>\n<p><strong>FULL ARTICLE LINK:<\/strong> <a href=\"https:\/\/news.stv.tv\/politics\/scottish-pensioners-to-get-same-winter-fuel-payments-as-those-in-england\">https:\/\/news.stv.tv\/politics\/scottish-pensioners-to-get-same-winter-fuel-payments-as-those-in-england<\/a><\/p>\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" style=\"border: none; overflow: hidden;\" src=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/plugins\/video.php?height=476&amp;href=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.facebook.com%2Fstvnews%2Fvideos%2F1059300868962522%2F&amp;show_text=true&amp;width=267&amp;t=0\" width=\"267\" height=\"591\" frameborder=\"0\" scrolling=\"no\" allowfullscreen=\"allowfullscreen\"><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p><strong>USEFUL LINKS:<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong>SCOT GOV WEBSITE:<\/strong> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.gov.scot\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">https:\/\/www.gov.scot<\/a><\/p>\n<p><strong>SCOT GOV FACEBOOK:<\/strong> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/TheScottishGovernment\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/TheScottishGovernment\/<\/a><\/p>\n<p><strong>SCOT GOV TWITTER:<\/strong> <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/ScotGov\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">https:\/\/twitter.com\/ScotGov<\/a><\/p>\n<p><strong>SCOT GOV INSTAGRAM:<\/strong> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.instagram.com\/scotgov\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">https:\/\/www.instagram.com\/scotgov\/<\/a><\/p>\n<p><strong>SCOT GOV YOUR TUBE:<\/strong> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/user\/scottishgovernment\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/user\/scottishgovernment<\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/TheScottishGovernment\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone wp-image-1688\" src=\"https:\/\/scottishpoliticsnews.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/03\/sm1-2.png\" alt=\"\" width=\"125\" height=\"56\" \/><\/a> <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/ScotGov\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone wp-image-1689 size-full\" src=\"https:\/\/scottishpoliticsnews.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/03\/sm2-2.png\" alt=\"\" width=\"125\" height=\"56\" \/><\/a> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.instagram.com\/scotgov\/\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-1691\" src=\"https:\/\/scottishpoliticsnews.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/03\/instagram.png\" alt=\"\" width=\"125\" height=\"56\" \/><\/a> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/user\/scottishgovernment\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-1690\" src=\"https:\/\/scottishpoliticsnews.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/03\/sm3.png\" alt=\"\" width=\"125\" height=\"56\" \/><\/a><br \/>\n<strong><br \/>\nSCOTTISH PARLIAMENT WEBSITE:<\/strong> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.parliament.scot\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">https:\/\/www.parliament.scot\/<\/a><\/p>\n<p><strong>SCOTTISH PARLIAMENT FACEBOOK:<\/strong> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/scottishparliament\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/scottishparliament<\/a><\/p>\n<p><strong>SCOTTISH PARLIAMENT TWITTER:<\/strong> <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/scotparl\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">https:\/\/twitter.com\/scotparl<\/a><\/p>\n<p><strong>SCOTTISH PARLIAMENT INSTAGRAM:<\/strong> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.instagram.com\/scotparl\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">https:\/\/www.instagram.com\/scotparl\/<\/a><br \/>\n<strong><br \/>\nSCOTTISH PARLIAMENT YOU TUBE:<\/strong> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/user\/ScottishParl\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/user\/ScottishParl<\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/scottishparliament\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone wp-image-1688\" src=\"https:\/\/scottishpoliticsnews.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/03\/sm1-2.png\" alt=\"\" width=\"125\" height=\"56\" \/><\/a> <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/scotparl\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone wp-image-1689 size-full\" src=\"https:\/\/scottishpoliticsnews.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/03\/sm2-2.png\" alt=\"\" width=\"125\" height=\"56\" \/><\/a> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.instagram.com\/scotparl\/\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-1691\" src=\"https:\/\/scottishpoliticsnews.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/03\/instagram.png\" alt=\"\" width=\"125\" height=\"56\" \/><\/a> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/user\/ScottishParl\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-1690\" src=\"https:\/\/scottishpoliticsnews.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/03\/sm3.png\" alt=\"\" width=\"125\" height=\"56\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>From STV News: &#8216;John Swinney has guaranteed pensioners will receive the same winter fuel payments as those in the rest of the UK following a major policy U-turn by the UK Government. The First Minister says around \u00a3119m is expected to come to Holyrood from Westminster to help deliver the support this year. The Scottish Government had already pledged to provide \u00a3100 to all pensioners north of the border \u2013 with those on pension credit receiving up to \u00a3305 depending on their age, regardless of what the UK Government decided.&hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":830,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[65,7],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.imadscotlandgroup.com\/media\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2990"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.imadscotlandgroup.com\/media\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.imadscotlandgroup.com\/media\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.imadscotlandgroup.com\/media\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.imadscotlandgroup.com\/media\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2990"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.imadscotlandgroup.com\/media\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2990\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2991,"href":"https:\/\/www.imadscotlandgroup.com\/media\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2990\/revisions\/2991"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.imadscotlandgroup.com\/media\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/830"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.imadscotlandgroup.com\/media\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2990"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.imadscotlandgroup.com\/media\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2990"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.imadscotlandgroup.com\/media\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2990"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}