‘Without the winter fuel payment, I will be working until I die’: Devastated pensioners reveal fears as Labour votes to cut annual payment – including some missing the cut by just 3 [Video]

16:09 EDT 10 Sep 2024, updated 16:29 EDT 10 Sep 2024

Devastated pensioners have revealed their fears after Labour voted to cut winter fuel payments for millions – with one claiming it will leave her ‘working until I die’.  

Labour was today cleared to scrap the annual payment for more than nine million pensioners despite Sir Keir Starmer suffering a Commons revolt. 

Dawn Matthews, 68, of Hampshire, works from home for 18 hours a week in an administrative job for the NHS. 

Due to her salary, she has missed out on being eligible for the Government’s pensioner’s winter fuel tax payment by less than £3. 

‘I am almost 69 and I have to continue to work literally just to live. I really wish I could retire – but I think I will be working until I die,’ she told the BBC. 

Ms Matthews added that the government’s cuts will leave her to ‘sit in the cold’ of her house …