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Pensioner, 90, fears he won’t make it through winter due to fuel payment cutsSky News

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00:00So when winter comes, that's got to go up even higher if I want to live like I'm living
00:08now.
00:09But I won't be able to.
00:10Because, like I said, I won't be having a shower every day.
00:14It'll be once a week probably.
00:18And cooking, I'll maybe have to do it for, last me three or four days instead of two
00:24days.
00:25I'm not going to be one of these pensioners who are not going to live through it.
00:29Because the amount of people that have died through it now are cold, making a choice of
00:35do I cook or do I have my heating on?

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