Official Statistics

Winter Fuel Payment statistics for winter 2020 to 2021 and winter 2021 to 2022

Experimental statistics on the number of Winter Fuel Payment recipients by local authority and by parliamentary constituency, for winter 2020 to 2021 and winter 2021 to 2022.

Applies to England, Scotland and Wales

Documents

Winter Fuel Payments, Great Britain and EEA: 2020 to 2021 (experimental)

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Winter Fuel Payments, Great Britain and EEA: 2021 to 2022 (experimental)

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Details

These experimental statistics contain data for the number of people who received a Winter Fuel Payment for winter 2020 to 2021 and winter 2021 to 2022 broken down by:

  • geography
  • age
  • gender

They also contain statistics on the number of payments made to people living outside the UK and the expenditure of these payments broken down by country.

Read the background, quality and methodology report for guidance on these statistics, such as timeliness, uses, and procedures.

Changes for this release

Statistics for winter 2020 to 2021 onwards are produced under a new methodology due to a change in data source. Therefore, users should avoid making comparisons to statistics produced under the previous methodology.

Following the change in data source, statistics from this release are labelled as experimental and will only include recipient statistics. Household level statistics are under development.

You can find more information about these changes in the background, quality and methodology report.

Pre-release access

In addition to staff who are responsible for the production and quality assurance of the statistics, up to 24-hour pre-release access is provided to ministers and other officials. We publish the job titles and organisations of the people who have been granted up to 24-hour pre-release access to the latest Winter Fuel Payments statistics.

Published 2 November 2022