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<p>All pensioners receive £100 to £300 Winter Fuel Payments and around 1.3 million
low income pensioners receive the Warm Home Discount - a £140 rebate off their bills
each winter.</p><p> </p><p>Additionally, the recent cold weather triggered payments
of £25 for qualifying households.</p><p> </p><p>I will be shortly consulting on how
to best focus the £640mm of ECO funding onto low income households - which is intended
to include elderly people living in fuel poverty.</p><p> </p><p>The Price Cap Bill
will protect 11m households with 5m households already protected by the Ofgem safeguard
tariff.</p><p> </p>
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