One good thing came out of the election – the Winter Fuel Allowance is safe, as the minority Scots Tories and the Ulster Unionists won’t wear Mrs. May’s plan to withhold it from everyone not claiming pension credit, which would have left pensioners who have savings but an income below the threshold for the starting rate of income tax not getting the WFA when the feckless who never saved did get it.
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