Winter Fuel Payment update as court battle told of 'abject failure' to carry out impact assessment
A legal challenge brought by pensioners is trying to overturn a decision by Chancellor Rachel Reeves to axe the benefit for ...
UK Government ‘blinded’ by money worries when it cut fuel payment, court told
Pensioners Florence and Peter Fanning, from North Lanarkshire, are challenging last year’s change to the winter fuel payment.
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Winter fuel payment cut ‘tainted’ by lack of impact assessment, court told
The Court of Session in Edinburgh is hearing a legal ... by its obligations under the 2010 Equalities Act, and the Scottish Government (the “second respondent”) had similar requirements ...
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Couple challenge winter fuel payment cut in court
A couple have started their legal challenge against UK and Scottish government decisions to cut winter fuel payments. Peter ...
Decision to cut winter fuel payment complied with Equality Act, court told
A couple from Coatbridge in North Lanarkshire are taking legal action against the UK and Scottish governments' decision to ...
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Decision to end universal £300 winter fuel payment was 'unlawful', court hears
They also claim the decision to end the £300 benefit for thousands of pensioners across the country last year was “irrational ...
London Evening Standard4d
UK Government ‘blinded’ by money worries when it cut fuel payment, court told
The Court of Session in Edinburgh is hearing a legal ... by its obligations under the 2010 Equalities Act, and the Scottish Government (the “second respondent”) had similar requirements ...
Winter fuel payment cut ‘tainted’ by lack of impact assessment, court told
The decision to cut the winter fuel payment will be “tainted” if the UK Government is found not to have properly assessed its ...
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UK government 'blinded' by money worries when it cut fuel payment, court told
The Court of Session in Edinburgh is being asked to ... while the second respondent - the Scottish government - had similar requirements under regulations dating from 2012. "There's overwhelming ...