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frazerd | 19:00 Mon 01st Jul 2013 | How it Works
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Can anyone advise me? I am about to send in my application for the Winter Fuel Allowance. Does my wife need to do the same or is it one per household?

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Payments are (in most cases) £200 per household but they're made to individuals. So a single person would get £200 but two (qualifying) people living together each get £100. https://www.gov.uk/winter-fuel-payment/what-youll-get So it appears that you BOTH need to apply.
19:04 Mon 01st Jul 2013
If two people in the same home are eligible it's half each.
Should have added she needs to fill in a form too.
Payments are (in most cases) £200 per household but they're made to individuals. So a single person would get £200 but two (qualifying) people living together each get £100.
https://www.gov.uk/winter-fuel-payment/what-youll-get
So it appears that you BOTH need to apply.
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Thank you all, especially for the Link. Question answered!
Can I say I never filled a form in and just received it into my bank account of which perhaps they had asked for details for bank details. But, no form as far as I can remember.
If you're receiving the State Pension you will get it paid automatically, you don't need to apply for it.
I didn't fill in a form, mine just appeared - and I wasn't drawing my State pension at that point, although I was eligible for it, I'd deferred it.

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