Bad Advice

Old (and sometimes confused) folk in the UK, receive an annual Winter Fuel Payment. The intention of this payment was to reduce the risk of hypothermia in pensioners. I was surprised to receive mine in an envelope urging me to shop around for the best energy deal as I could 'save up to £290 a year'. I thought, at that time, 'Haven't they heard about the energy crisis, with many of the smaller suppliers going bankrupt'. The advice has now been strongly critisized (https://www.theguardian.com/money/2021/nov/13/energy-bills-uk-government-accused-of-sending-out-bad-advice). Confused pensioners, following the envelope's advice, would have been generally making their situation much worse. There are no savings to be obtained by 'shopping around'. Still, I suppose the envelopes had been printed and they didn't want to waste them?