Social Security Experience Panels - Pension Age Winter Heating Payment: visual summary

Replacing Winter Fuel Payment with Pension Age Winter Heating Payment

The majority of respondents (71 per cent) agreed with the proposal to replace Winter Fuel Payment with Pension Age Winter Heating Payment on a ‘like-for-like’ basis under Social Security Scotland. Only ten per cent disagreed.

Almost three quarters (72 per cent) of respondents agreed with the proposed name of ‘Pension Age Winter Heating Payment’. However, slightly more than a fifth (21 per cent) disagreed.

More than four-fifths (83 per cent) of respondents agreed that the proposed format for PAWHP would be an effective way for the Scottish Government to provide financial support to older people.