内容摘要：They have also asked local authorities to work with children in care to ensure they feel supported while moving.

They have also asked local authorities to work with children in care to ensure they feel supported while moving.

Wendy Dopheide, 60, is an English and drama teacher from Warminster, Wiltshire, and said she would also consider legal action."I can't overstate just how stressful this is for people like me in this situation," she said.

"By the age of 60, which I am now, many people are starting to look forward to retirement. I can't do that because I have no idea about what my financial situation will be when I do retire and whether I'll be able to afford to live."She originally applied for her CETV in August 2023 but is still waiting. She said the December update claiming that the backlog would be cleared by the end of February made her "hopeful", but that since then she has been met with a "stony silence"."When I heard about it, I thought 'wow, I can start to move on and get the information that I need'," she said.

"And I heard nothing back, nothing at all."A similar feeling of being left in the dark is shared by Philip Hawkins, a 57-year-old retired art teacher, from Exeter.

He first contacted Teachers' Pensions about a CETV in October last year.

He was told he would have to pay for the valuation and that he would be sent an invoice. It took five months for that invoice to arrive.The matter was "urgent" due to increasingly cold weather and the significant impact on people "who are at risk of disconnection, and who are increasingly having to forgo adequate heating and cut other essential spending", the letter read.

“People do not understand, I do not understand how a Labour government has taken away the fuel allowance of millions of pensioners just as winter approaches," Graham added.The government said on Sunday millions of pensioners would "see state pensions rise by up to £1,700 this parliament" through its commitment to the triple lock.

It said more than a million pensioners would still receive the payment, with a 152% increase in pension credit claims, while some would benefit from the £150 warm home discount.Prime Minister Sir Keir Starmer