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Has everyone received a letter from Dwp regarding WFP?

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2420mags Mon 21-Oct-24 14:55:23

This morning l received a letter regarding eligibility for the Winter Fuel Payment. l expect "my Dove" will get his tomorrow. If they send every eligible person a letter, what a waste of money. The Government departments know who is " paperless" because you opt in. What is the point of doing that if they still send you paper communications as well. Mind you l didn't get any communication, paper or digital, regarding the change in my pension age when it mattered. No wonder the country is short of money.

rafichagran Mon 21-Oct-24 18:16:22

My partner and I got ours last week. Total waste of time and money.

ginny Mon 21-Oct-24 18:23:06

We both got ours last week. Yes, waste of money as we knew we wouldn’t get it.
I was never informed by letter ( born 1954 ) about the pension age changes.

AreWeThereYet Mon 21-Oct-24 19:45:58

Yes got mine last week. Knew I wasn't eligible anyway.

But maybe they send them out with all the details of who can claim so that if they have made a mistake people will be made aware to query it if they see they are eligible.

MissAdventure Mon 21-Oct-24 19:51:33

I get the feeling that it would also been wrong had no letters been sent out.

foxie48 Mon 21-Oct-24 19:54:34

MissAdventure

I get the feeling that it would also been wrong had no letters been sent out.

Yup!

maddyfour Mon 21-Oct-24 20:01:51

Neither of us have had a letter either. I’m not bothered, it’s a waste of money, in my opinion. Surely everyone knows, it’s been all over the news for weeks.

I got one letter about my change of pension age; it said my new pension age would be 61. I didn’t get another letter telling me that actually my pension age had been changed again to 63. I was not informed of that at all. I found out accidentally when doing a search online to check the exact time of my state pension age.

Iam64 Mon 21-Oct-24 20:05:48

foxie48

MissAdventure

I get the feeling that it would also been wrong had no letters been sent out.

Yup!

Exactly so MissAdventure.
Moaning seems to be a national pastime

NotAGran55 Mon 21-Oct-24 20:07:57

MissAdventure

I get the feeling that it would also been wrong had no letters been sent out.

Exactly! They can’t do right for doing wrong 🙄

I don’t know why posters think that they should have had one letter between two either 🤷🏼‍♀️

Iam64 Mon 21-Oct-24 20:09:17

I expect there’s a legal or societal/ethical reason why individual people received individual letters

FriedGreenTomatoes2 Mon 21-Oct-24 20:15:48

Yes we have.
One for Himself on Friday.
One for me in the post today. The postage bill must be phenomenal!
Crazy.

MissAdventure Mon 21-Oct-24 20:25:29

You're two separate people, though. (I'm sure you've already noticed!)

In terms of benefits, national insurance, and so on, you each have presumably different histories?

Iam64 Mon 21-Oct-24 20:35:09

Exactly MissA.

I’ve resisted moving from paper to online bank statements. My hospital appointments and any appointments with my GP now arrive digitally. I expect letters by mail to become extinct before long.
Currently, we still have letters from public bodies. I can onky imagine the outcry if people had received texts, or no confirmation of any kind on the WFA

FriedGreenTomatoes2 Mon 21-Oct-24 20:37:56

I’ve banked on line for over 20 years without a problem. 😊
Paper? Letters?
Soon be obsolete.
Ah wait … many hospitals STILL use paper records. Duh!

Harris27 Mon 21-Oct-24 20:50:47

Me too rosie51 still working!

Casdon Mon 21-Oct-24 21:35:41

I genuinely don’t get why people are complaining about this, when the same people complain that they didn’t receive letters from the DWP about the pension age changing. If everybody gets a letter, nobody can say they don’t know, and that they haven’t been told how to claim support if they are entitled to it, can they?

Rosie51 Mon 21-Oct-24 21:50:53

People are complaining/commenting (I didn't complain merely noted we had received letters) because most of the letters will be going to people who no longer qualify and it does seem a waste of money when we're told how bad the finances are, even if it is unavoidable. Of course letters had to be sent to individuals, no government agency can send out joint benefit letters. If these letters prompt those that are eligible for pension credit, but not currently claiming, to apply for it then that will be a good outcome.

Allira Mon 21-Oct-24 23:17:10

Iam64

I expect there’s a legal or societal/ethical reason why individual people received individual letters

Data protection.

maddyfour Mon 21-Oct-24 23:18:45

Iam64

Exactly MissA.

I’ve resisted moving from paper to online bank statements. My hospital appointments and any appointments with my GP now arrive digitally. I expect letters by mail to become extinct before long.
Currently, we still have letters from public bodies. I can onky imagine the outcry if people had received texts, or no confirmation of any kind on the WFA

We haven’t received any letters about the WFA and we’re not bothered or moaning.
We don’t care, because we already know!

Shinamae Mon 21-Oct-24 23:44:20

Got mine the other day.
Saying the benefits you’ve got to be on before you get it
I won’t be getting it, thank goodness I’m still working. albeit part time.

Whiff Tue 22-Oct-24 06:56:45

I had an email from Eon telling me the £150 had been credited to my account the other week . I received the letter telling me I would get it this which I received yesterday. Don't see the point of having a letter when my energy company had already told me they had received it.

mum2three Tue 22-Oct-24 06:58:40

Yes, and it was completely unnecessary.

orly Tue 22-Oct-24 12:20:27

I and my husband have both had a letter saying we won't be getting WFP this year after getting for the first and only time last year. What a waste of money reminding us what we already knew that the grabbing Labour Chancellor is targeting pensioners because she has to pay for all the pay rises she's awarded to their union backers. I'm dreading the Budget!

Carlota Tue 22-Oct-24 12:33:39

Just received a letter (applied last April) after a few weeks I contacted PC the person answering was very rude told me I would hear from them in due course said goodbye and went off the line.I'm just above pension credit entitlement so not eligible for WFP. Predicament do I freeze or get into debt.....

Wyllow3 Tue 22-Oct-24 12:35:16

Although people on this board know about the details of WFA after a long summer of discussion:

We cant assume that everyone does, nor who they are, to "target" letters.

Far from it. as conversations I have had with a care worker in SSD show.

The letters also did something very valuable in reminding people to claim Pension Credit and how, and which benefits mean that people will get WFA. Very far from wasted letters.

win Tue 22-Oct-24 12:48:16

MissAdventure

I get the feeling that it would also been wrong had no letters been sent out.

Yes absolutely they cannot win whoever they are, if they do they are wrong, if they don't they are wrong too, dear me