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Winter fuel payment: We spend it on holidays, say some pensioners

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The winter fuel payment ( WFP ) costs nearly 2 billion per year but Sir Keir Starmer hopes it will save taxpayers 1.5 billion .

Last winter 10.8 million people got the payment to help with heating bills.

Now only pensioners who qualify for certain benefits will receive the payment.

Some rely on the payment for heating, while others spend the money on holidays.

Shelagh Lind , 70 , is 2 per week over the pension credit threshold, so will lose WFP .

Rose Brooks , 77 , says her WFP money had been dedicated to paying the gas bill.

'I honestly don’t know how I am going to stay warm this winter ,' she says.

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