Chancellor Rachel Reeves (Image: Getty)
Chancellor Rachel Reeves has been urged to boost a Christmas bonus paid to pensioners after winter fuel cuts and the Waspi row.
The £10 payment is given to people on as well as those on certain other benefits.
But campaign group Silver Voices is calling for the one-off tax-free sum, which has not been increased since it was introduced in 1972, to be uprated in line with inflation.
The bonus, paid before Christmas, would now stand at £115.76 under the Bank of England inflation calculator.
Silver Voices director Dennis Reed said: “The Chancellor has been rightly labelled as a Scrooge for scrapping the for so many poor pensioners, and this week forcing the Department for Work and Pensions to scrap Waspi compensation.
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“Just like Scrooge, she has the opportunity of a last-minute conversion to make Christmas a happier place for older people.
“It is not right that universal pensioner benefits have not been uprated for decades, whereas other benefits are usually inflation-proofed.
“Rachel Reeves has the perfect mechanism to change her image and regain a modicum of popularity.”
The demand comes as Labour has faced an ongoing backlash for stripping around 10 million OAPs of previously universal winter fuel payments.
The move is aimed at saving the Treasury up to £1.5 billion a year but has been condemned by opposition parties, charities and unions.
There was fresh fury last week after the Government ruled out compensation to women affected by changes to the age.
Ministers said paying the money to members of the Women Against Inequality (Waspi) campaign would not be a fair use of taxpayer cash.
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