Winter Fuel Payments For Severely Disabled People

EDM number 1065 in 1999-00, proposed by Roger Berry on 23/10/2000.

That this House notes with concern that, while pensioners over the age of 60 years can claim a winter fuel payment of ú150 a year, there are one million severely disabled people under the age of 60 who are not eligible for the payment, many of whom feel the cold intensely and cannot afford to heat their homes adequately; and therefore calls on the Government to extend the winter fuel payment to disabled people who receive the middle or the higher rate of the disability living allowance care component or the higher rate of the mobility component.

This motion has been signed by a total of 77 MPs.