Responding to a written question by Labour MP Rachael Maskell, Pensions Minister - Emma Reynolds - said banding based on property values may not accurately reflect taxpayers’ incomes.
The Government has axed the universal winter fuel payment, which all pensioners used to receive regardless of their income, and replaced it with an allowance available to pensioners on means-tested benefits, including pension credit and universal credit.
MPs voted 348 to 228 to cut the seasonal payment for all but the country’s poorest pensioners on Tuesday, rejecting a Conservative bid for the controversial policy to be blocked.
Ms Maskell did not take part in the vote.
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