Winter Fuel Payment what would be fair

How about taxing the folk who caused the mess instead of hitting those at the bottom of the income scale? A lot of us are waspies who have a.ready lost tens of thousands of pounds due to government mismanagement .My friend is just over the PC limit she hasearlyomset dementia and is recovering from her third battle with cancer.She feels the cold badly…it’s already cold here in the west of Scotland .Her son has offered to move back from England to help her out but she doesn’t want him to disrupt his life and she is ina one bedroom flat so where would he sleep.Life isn’t simple for many pensioners ,lots don’t have private pensions..they won’t claim benefits even if they could because of the stigma in the media.They are proud people unlike the current or last government who,ll take freebies and expenses from any source and believe they are right to do so.Labour aren’t the Labour they once were .certainly not a party of the ordinary man .as seen by the socialist SIR keir ,the principled man whose name he carries willbe turning in his grave!!

I think the same household income level as Child Benefit would be fair. A lot of younger people were complaining about rich pensioners getting an unnecessary benefit so this would make it equal.
Being household based, rather than individual, is fair. Very few single female pensioners have a high pension. Mine is above Pension Credit but below minimum wage, which I think would be the same for most women.

Just tax it.
I see that the Labour leadership are trying to bury the unions vote on keeping the winter fuel payment.

How about taking it away from people in the higher or additional tax brackets?

Why not just make it taxable? That way the reduction would be graduated with no 'cliff edge'.