I can see the argument for reducing and removing child benefit for high earners (despite the fact that I am losing money myself), but why not apply the same principle to winter fuel payments? A colleague of mine is a hospital consultant, earning over 100k a year, so has just lost all his child benefit. But he still gets his winter fuel payment.
It seems a bit strange.
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To wonder why child benefit is now means tested but winter fuel payments aren't.
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ImagineJL · 03/12/2012 22:52
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