Lee Anderson raged at Labour's pension policy (Image: Getty)
Reform MP Lee Anderson has raged at the Government's decision to take winter fuel allowance away from millions of pensioners across the UK.
Taking to social media site X, Mr Anderson told pensioners in the UK to "not bother" writing a will to their kids in a furious message.
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He said: "Just imagine. If you become a pensioner tomorrow and live alone for the next 20 years after working all your life.
"Then imagine losing ￡6,000 over that period as Labour have taken away you're (sic) Winter Fuel Allowance.
"Don't bother writing a will, here's the T-shirt to leave to your kids."
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Just imagine.....
If you become a pensioner tomorrow and live alone for the next 20 years after working all your life.
Then imagine losing ￡6,000 over that period as Labour have taken away you're Winter Fuel Allowance.
Don't bother writing a will, here's the T Shirt to leave… pic.twitter.com/qQtIqo13RL
— Lee Anderson MP (@LeeAndersonMP_) August 11, 2024
The post was accompanied by a picture of a T-shirt with the following message written across it: "I lost 6,000 pounds."
Chancellor Rachel Reeves announced last month that the Government would no longer offer winter fuel payments to all pensioners, opting instead to means-test the benefits.
The move will save ￡1.4billion for the Treasury, but around 10 million pensioners in England and Wales will no longer get the payments of between ￡100 and ￡300.
Ms Reeves said the decision was necessary after claiming to have discovered a ￡20bn 'black hold' in public finances after taking office in July.
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Reeves defended her decision due to the ￡20bn 'black hole' (Image: Getty)
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Baroness Altman, former pensions minister under David Cameron, told the Telegraph that the decision was worse than removing the triple lock.
She said: “This is the wrong political choice – pensioners should not be targeted to fix the fiscal deficit. Pensioners are not all well off and many struggle to make ends meet, living frugally on far less than most younger people.
“I do hope the Government will recognise that this is not right, it will cause real hardship and needs to be urgently reconsidered.
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"Saving the ￡1.4 billion this year by making pensioners pay for the fiscal overspend is a political choice, and in my view it is the wrong one.”
Meanwhile, campaigners have warned that as many as 2 million pensioners will now be forced to choose between eating and heating without the top-up.
Caroline Abrahams, the charity director at Age UK, said: “Our initial estimate is that as many as 2 million pensioners who badly need the money to stay warm this winter will not receive it and will be in trouble as a result – yet at the other end of the spectrum well-off older people will scarcely notice the difference – a social injustice.”