USwitch's (the comparison website) own research suggests around 1.7 m households in the UK will not turn on the heating (nearly double the number who said they did this last winter).

Certainly there may have been an argument for better targeting the winter fuel payments, but a quarter of pensioners making this decision say its because of the lost payment.

For the rest of the household this is just one more aspect of the health impact of the cost of living crisis.

#health #winter
h/t Guardian