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The Independent UK
The Independent UK
National
Andy Gregory

Rachel Reeves’s winter fuel payment cut will put pensioners in hospital, Labour MPs fear

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Labour frontbenchers and MPs have reportedly expressed fears that chancellor Rachel Reeves’s “brutal” plan to scrap the winter fuel allowance for all but the poorest pensioners will put more older people in hospital.

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