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• Which benefits are available to vulnerable people under Labour?

  23-08-2024 19:24
  
  As the winter fuel allowance is scrapped for many pensioners, we outline some other key benefits• Millions facing ‘cruel winter’ without fuel payments, Labour MPs warnLabour backbenchers are warning that millions of vulnerable people will face a “cruel winter” amid rising energy prices and a reduction in benefits, including the removal of winter fuel payments for millions of pensioners.Keir Starmer’s government has promised to improve conditions for those most
  
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• Free care for all was never going to work | Letter

  23-08-2024 18:31
  Rather than free care for all, funding should concentrate on better care for the less well-off, says David LipseyAlan Walker is right to condemn the “low priority given to social care compared with healthcare” (Letters, 14 August). And yet he praises as “brilliant” the job done by the Sutherland royal commission.The Sutherland commission was a disaster for social care. It wanted huge sums spent on providing care free for the better off, without tackling the real problem a
  
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