[Scottish Parliament, 30.07.2024] Responding to Labour’s decision to make cuts to Winter Fuel Payments, Highlands and Islands MSP Jamie Halcro Johnston said:
“Labour’s cut to Winter Fuel Payments could disproportionately hit pensioners across the Highlands and Islands, and particularly in those communities where heating bills and cases of fuel poverty are already higher than in the rest of Scotland.
“Like the SNP’s ban on wood burning stoves, Labour ministers are making decisions with little understanding or consideration of how those decisions might impact in communities like ours, or of the potentially devastating unintended consequences of those decisions.
“This short-sighted cut to these vital heating payments risks leaving some of our more vulnerable residents colder this winter”.
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