Cost-of-living help needs to be better targeted so people can eat, warns poverty adviser

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Cost-of-living help needs to be better targeted so people can eat, warns poverty adviser
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Rishi Sunak vowed to put “responsible” measures ahead of “short-term popularity” as Tories urged him to do more to tackle the cost-of-living crisis

People on low incomes will be forced to choose between buying food and heating their homes because ministers’ support for theis “poorly targeted” and “insufficient”, a member of the government’s fuel poverty commission has said.

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