Our Winter Fuel Payment to British Citizens here in Spain

You could also fill in the online petition by going to the following link
http://epetitions.direct.gov.uk/petitions/73368

Most important to all of us enjoying the heat here have you managed to sent off to them? It is now up to just over 4,000 will finish and close end of March BUT it needs to get up to 100,000 signatures to stand a chance.
To sign direct on line go to http://epetitions.direct.gov.uk/petitions/73368

There was a double page article about WFA in last Fridays Euro Weekly News and there should be a follow up in next Fridays, with readers comments, hopefully mine will be printed.
I urge everyone to sign the Petition to STOP the Government taking away what is rightfully ours.
It's ok for the 'pigs in the trough' claiming everything they can and to also fiddle their expenses to feather their million pound homes, but it seems they can't afford to give us a lousy £4 a week.

Further to Ian,s post

It had been ruled that expats living in countries where the average annual temperature is higher than the UK’s warmest region – the South West, at 5.6 degrees – will lose their allowance as of September 2015.

However a way around this law may now have been unearthed.

Expats are now being urged to force a rarely used parliamentary technique – known as a prayer – into action to halt the implementation of the statutory change.

In order to activate the prayer, the Work and Pensions Committee must receive a large number of complaints within 40 days of the statutory change being implemented – I.E. before January 24.

Repeated a copy of the letter Ian posted

To help activate the prayer, the following email must be sent to [email protected]

Dear Madam.

Please convey the following message immediately to the Committee.

To members of the Select Committee for Work & Pensions, it is urged that a ‘prayer’ an EDM as follows is laid before parliament before the 24th January (40 days after the SI was laid).

Early Day Motion (prayer)

Winter Fuel Payment to British Citizens in EU countries.
The Statutory Instrument 2014 No. 3270 (laid before PARLIAMENT on the 15th December 2014 restricting payment to pensioners residing in countries incorrectly called by the DWP ‘hot’ of the EU should be annulled. After the General Election, the matter may then be appropriately reconsidered by the new Parliament.
1. It discriminates against certain groups of British Citizen pensioners residing in certain States of the EU, some of whom are already in financial difficulties.
2. This SI almost certainly contravenes the UK treaty agreement with the EU on social security co-ordination.