tim moffat, bbc news.ners that receive winter fuel payments that don�*t need it, but more importantly, because we are confident that the payment will be in place for the most vulnerable pensioners this winter, and that includes pension credit, they are taking steps, as i hope you know, to drive up coverage of pension credit. it is a scandal that now it hundred and 80,000 pensioners do not claim it, we need to boost those numbers and make it simplerfor people it, we need to boost those numbers and make it simpler for people to apply. but also other forms of support, the £150 warm homes discount, councils can give direct support to vulnerable people including older people, and we are protecting all pensioners through the triple lock which will mean that over the course of this parliament, the state pension will rise by £1700, the state pension will rise by e1700, and if the the state pension will rise by £1700, and if the ons estimates that were released yesterday confirmed later this month, we will see the