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Our community believes the government’s winter fuel policy has swung from being unfairly strict to overly generous, with many calling the new £35,000 threshold confusing, politically driven, and out of touch with who really needs support
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s the government hikes the winter fuel payment threshold to £35,000, many Independent readers say the means test was too low last year – and is now far too high.
