Winter Fuel Payment 2024/24 News. The scottish government had previously announced plans to replace winter fuel payment from winter 2024/25 with its own scheme called the 'pension age winter heating payment'. A winter fuel payment can help you pay your heating bills.
The advisory fuel rates from 1 september 2024 have been added. Much of the funding will be absorbed by meeting pay and inflationary pressures, with the latter being more acute than in other sectors of the economy owing to, for example, higher exposure.