# Rachel Reeves ## Identity and office Rachel Reeves has been Chancellor of the Exchequer since 5 July 2024. She remains in office on 4 September 2026 under Keir Starmer. The Exchequer can present a Budget and take a bill. It does not give her DWP’s laying office on every SI or a unique later GDP coefficient. She is not a Ukraine co-belligerent on this catalog. ukraine-war is not minted and is not attached. 2014+/Karabakh/Kosovo/Taiwan events are not hung on territorial-revisionism. Soviet-scope rows are not used as primary homes. This run does not mint keir-starmer. The Winter Fuel file is dated. On 29 July 2024 she told Parliament that from winter 2024/25 households in England and Wales would no longer receive Winter Fuel Payment unless on Pension Credit or specified means-tested benefits ([BBC](https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/articles/cx02zdd92zdo); Commons Library CBP-10094). The Social Fund Winter Fuel Payment Regulations 2024 (SI 2024/869) were laid on 22 August 2024 and came into force on 16 September 2024 ([legislation.gov.uk](https://www.legislation.gov.uk/uksi/2024/869)). BBC recorded “around 10 million” pensioners losing the payment. That figure is the wire’s. It is not stored as a unique integer. A later 9 June 2025 GOV.UK announcement of a £35,000 threshold for winter 2025/26 is neighbouring, not this SI. The fiscal-rule file is statute. The Budget Responsibility Act 2024 (c. 24) received Royal Assent on 10 September 2024. It imposes duties on the Treasury and the Office for Budget Responsibility in respect of fiscally significant measures ([legislation.gov.uk](https://www.legislation.gov.uk/ukpga/2024/24)). The Budget file is 30 October 2024. [HM Treasury](/organizations/econ-org-uk-hm-treasury) published the Autumn Budget she presented ([GOV.UK](https://www.gov.uk/government/publications/autumn-budget-2024)). Tax, welfare, and spending measures sit in that paper. The £22 billion “hole” she cited on 29 July was contested by Jeremy Hunt as spurious. Hunt is unresolved. The figure is not stored as Contribution.size. ## Documented benefits The offsets that a commissioned-positive portrait would lead with are real only where dated. The Budget Responsibility Act is a completed OBR-duty statute; OBR independence is not measured here as a unique coefficient. Triple-lock language is neighbouring DWP. ## Contributions and limits of responsibility She accepted the Exchequer on 5 July 2024. She announced the Winter Fuel change on 29 July. The SI gave it force. She took the Budget Responsibility bill to Assent. She presented the Autumn Budget. She does not sit as Emma Reynolds laying SI 2024/869 at DWP. Sharing a cabinet with Starmer is not a reason to drop 16 September 2024. ## Causal chain through facts 5 July 2024 opens the Exchequer. 10 September 2024 writes the fiscal-rule Act. 16 September 2024 brings SI 2024/869 into force. 30 October 2024 is the Autumn Budget. None of those dates hangs on ukraine-war, territorial-revisionism, or Glavlit. She connects to the mechanism only through dated facts. ## What the score does not say This page does not promise an exact number. Direction on this chain is negative on the Winter Fuel SI: a completed means-test of a previously near-universal winter payment under a new fiscal-rule statute and an Autumn Budget. It does not invent a unique 10-million integer or a unique £22 billion hole. A later genuine repeal would be a different fact with a different date. Hunt remains a name on this file, not an invented biography. ## Dated facts - Reeves presents Autumn Budget 2024. https://factrail.ai/facts/uk-reeves-autumn-budget-2024. Sources: https://commonslibrary.parliament.uk/research-briefings/cbp-10094/, https://www.gov.uk/government/publications/autumn-budget-2024. - SI 2024/869 in force: Winter Fuel Payment means-tested in England and Wales. https://factrail.ai/facts/uk-reeves-winter-fuel-si-2024. Sources: https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/articles/cx02zdd92zdo, https://www.legislation.gov.uk/uksi/2024/869. - Budget Responsibility Act 2024 receives Royal Assent. https://factrail.ai/facts/uk-reeves-budget-responsibility-act-2024. Sources: https://www.gov.uk/government/publications/autumn-budget-2024, https://www.legislation.gov.uk/ukpga/2024/24. - 2024: Reeves appointed Chancellor of the Exchequer in the Starmer cabinet. https://factrail.ai/facts/uk-reeves-chancellor-2024. Sources: https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/articles/cx02zdd92zdo, https://www.gov.uk/government/news/ministerial-appointments-july-2024. ## Methodology https://factrail.ai/methodology Canonical: https://factrail.ai/people/rachel-reeves