Minister admits winter fuel cut was a 'tough call'

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The energy minister has admitted the winter fuel payment cut was a "tough call" by the chancellor. Miatta Fahnbulleh urged pensioners struggling with their energy bills to get in touch with their suppliers. "We announced yesterday that there will be £500 million worth of support available to people this winter. I know people are worried about their energy bills this winter - please pick up the phone and speak to your supplier," she said.    Report by Kennedyl. Like us on Facebook at http://www.facebook.com/itn and follow us on Twitter at http://twitter.com/itn

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00:00The winter fuel payment was a tough call by the Chancellor, but we've been really clear

00:03that we will do everything we can to support vulnerable households, you know, and that's

00:07why I've been working really hard with the energy suppliers in order to put in place

00:11a winter support package. We announced yesterday that there'll be £500 million worth of support

00:17available for people this winter. That's in addition to the £500 million we're putting

00:21through the Warm Homes Discount that's helping over 3 million households. So for people that

00:26I know, I know that they're worried about their energy bills this winter, please pick

00:30up the phone, speak to your supplier, get in touch with Citizens Advice because there's

00:34a billion pounds worth of support that we've put into the system and we want people to

00:38be able to get access to that.

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