Elaine Yates spoke about losing her Winter Fuel Payment (Image: ITV)
A pensioner has hit out at the Government's scrapping of the Winter Fuel Payment, branding it "disgusting", "cruel" and "despicable."
She also shared how she has had to reduce the use of her oven and make a choice between heating or eating.
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Elaine Yates, 75, cared for her husband for 19 years, and says she effectively helped the Government by doing this.
Now, she faces coping with ￡300 less a year.
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But, on July 29, Rachel Reeves announced cuts to the scheme, meaning it will now only be available to people who are in receipt of Pension Credit or certain other means-tested benefits.
Ms Yates told Good Morning Britain from her home in Northamptonshire that she only had five meals cooked in her oven last year.
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'It was cruel. It was disgusting.'
Elaine Yates, a 75-year-old former carer, who has been stripped of the winter fuel payment says keeps her heating to a max of 13C to save money.
She has only turned her oven on a handful of times in the past 12 months because she cannot afford… pic.twitter.com/gTCkEZSmlB
— Good Morning Britain (@GMB) January 13, 2025
This is because she is worried about not using her heating as she suffers from lung disease.
She said: "I give 19 years of my life helping the government, if you like, saving them so much money, and the only reward I get is that they take ￡300 a year off me.
"[It's] absolutely despicable; I couldn't believe it."
Ms Yates added: "I just have to cope with it because, you know, if you can't afford it, you can't afford it. I don't use my oven, you know, unless it's really, really [cold].
"I think I had five cooked meals in that oven last year. I'd rather have heating on because of my lung disease [...] I have to consider my health; it's cruel."
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When asked by former Labour minister Ed Balls what she thought of the Government's explanation for the move, a "black hole" in the public finances, Ms Yates said: "It's disgusting. Now, I do agree that there are, there are some people that that can cope, you know, that have big pensions and what have you.
"But there's a high amount of people like myself that are having to cope on a very small budget.
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"I'm not the only one, and it's cruel. And then, if you try and contact them, you're told to to use the internet. A lot of people can't use the internet."
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