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 "id": "winter-fuel-payment-england-wales",
 "title": "Winter Fuel Payment by rate, England and Wales",
 "category": "welfare",
 "summary": "People paid the Winter Fuel Payment in England and Wales in the latest winter, by the rate paid (£100 to £300), with the recipients and beneficiaries in all, from DWP's table by region.",
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  "People paid the Winter Fuel Payment for the winter, by the rate DWP paid them (£100, £150, £200 or £300, by age and household), as its table by region gives the rates. Beneficiaries are the recipients and their eligible partners, as DWP defines them.",
  "The release covers people living in England and Wales: the payment is now devolved to Scotland, which publishes its own figures, and Northern Ireland's are the Department for Communities'. The winter of 2024 to 2025 was means-tested, so earlier winters are not like this one. The figures count payments DWP made, before HMRC recovers any from pensioners with higher incomes, and leave out pensioners who opted out before payment.",
  "DWP applies statistical disclosure control to these tables and says their totals may not sum, so the rates and regions add up to the total within a few dozen, not exactly. The release gives no spending."
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  "latest_period": "2025/26",
  "winter": "2025/26",
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