With the recently introduced means-testing of Winter Fuel Payment and the debates which followed in Scotland around the newly devolved Pension Age Winter Heating Payment, there’s been an increased focus politically and in the media on the difficulties some older people are facing to make ends meet. While winter is coming to an end, 156,122 pensioners in Scotland still live in relative poverty (with 80,900 of those in severe poverty) and the financial pressures they face go far beyond the struggle of keeping their homes warm.