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Whenever the government want to phase a payment out, they just stop increasing it over time, which is what they have been doing for 2 generations.

The reality is that there should be enough margin in benefits etc so that a winter fuel allowance is not necessary. We all know that the baseline state pension is just not high enough. We have a minimum wage, but we don't have a minimum state pension that will keep an old person off the breadline