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The Independent UK
The Independent UK
National
Matt Mathers

Warning poverty is putting 1.3 million people with health problems at greater risk from cold

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More than a million people with health problems are at greater risk from the cold as a result of poverty, it has been warned.

Ministers are being urged to extend beyond March the help with energy bills being provided to the most vulnerable, after figures suggested that 1.3 million people with heart and breathing problems could be at greater risk of death or hospitalisation.

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