Recommendation 6

The Government says it is taking a cross-department approach to address the challenges faced by older people. We were interested in arguments that it would help to have a strategy where the Government set out its objectives for older people and the mechanisms to ensure that those priorities are reflected in policy across government departments. As an example, the Government wants to take a more preventative model to ill health. However, it is hard to see how the removal of Winter Fuel Payments with little notice from most pensioners in winter 2024/25, aligned with this. (Conclusion, Paragraph 48)