The DWP has today issued an update on the Winter Fuel Payment being scrapped and turned into a means-tested benefit after the benefit began to be paid out to pensioners this week.

A letter written by the Work and Pensions Secretary Liz Kendall has been published by the government today with an extensive update on the decision to end universal Winter Fuel Payments and make them only available to those on a qualifying benefit such as Pension Credit.

This week, those on Pension Credit began to…