00:00I'm Theo with Manchester World today. I'm on the streets of Manchester asking people about the
00:02winter fuel payment and the reason for that is since the Labour government introduced the policy
00:07there's been a lot of controversy. What it now means is that you have to earn under a certain
00:11amount of money as a pensioner to get free money towards your winter fuel payment. We don't know
00:16whether people would have cut that, whether they would have cut something else to save money,
00:19whether they support the policy. That's a really bad idea. I just think there's worse problems.
00:25Yeah, there are more, I don't know, I guess there's things that they could focus on which
00:29would actually have more benefit. I mean winter fuel allows people to live throughout the winter
00:35doesn't it? I don't think it's worth cutting that if it's going to benefit anyone. I don't
00:41think people are exploiting it as much as like it's to help people. And also it feels expensive
00:48so I definitely see why people would be really opposed to that happening because like it's
00:52something that you'd rather not have to worry about people if you haven't had to.
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