Bishop’s Stortford’s Labour MP is to hold dedicated advice surgeries for pensioners to help ensure they are getting all the money to which they are entitled. Josh Dean made the pledge ahead of voting on Tuesday (Sept 10) for 9.9 million pensioners to lose winter fuel payments of £200 or £300 in November and December. The number of payments will fall from 11.4 million to the 1.5 million poorest pensioners who claim Pension Credit to top up a low income as the Government moves to start means-testing the handout. In a statement released before the vote explaining why he would be voting with the G…
