The government's decision to largely reverse its cuts to winter fuel payments has raised questions about its spending and savings plans – and its fiscal rules.
BBC Verify has been looking at the the key numbers.
What has changed on winter fuel?
At the time Labour won the 2024 general election, the Department for Work and Pensions was projecting that 10.8 million pensioners in England and Wales would be eligible for winter fuel payments in 2024-25.
The payments are worth either £200 or £300 per household.
The new government, in order to save money, decided that only pensioners in receipt of pension credit (a separate benefit aimed at low-income pensioners) would receive winter fuel payments that winter – and said that would reduce the number of individual recipients to 1.5 million.
Now the government has changed course – after widespread criticism – and said that, from 2025-26, all pensioners will get it, although it will be clawed back in the following tax year from individuals earning £35,000 and above.
It claims this means about 9 million pensioners will now be eligible..
The effect of this is largely to undo the impact of its initial policy in terms of the numbers affected.
How much will this cost?
The government estimated that the cost of the winter fuel payment system it inherited in 2024-25 would have been £1.9bn.
It estimated that its initial reform last year would cut this bill by £1.4bn in 2024-25 (rising to £1.5bn in 2025-26) taking the cost of the system down to £0.5bn
Now the government says the cost of the system after its latest change will be £1.25bn – a saving of £450m relative to a system in which all pensioners were eligible to receive the payments.
The government added that this £450m saving has not yet been certified by the Office for Budget Responsibility (OBR) – the government's official forecaster.
But, if it transpired, this saving would be only a third of the original £1.5bn savings target.
And some analysts think the overall net saving for the government could actually be lower still.
Under Labour's initial 2024 reform, winter fuel payments were only available to those in receipt of a separate benefit aimed at low-income pensioners, called pension credit.
Last year, the government initiated a campaign to encourage the hundreds of thousands of pensioners who are eligible for pension credit, but who do not claim it, to start doing so.
The latest data shows almost 60,000 more pension credit claims were awarded than otherwise might have been, likely because of the government's awareness campaign.
