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She claimed a "black hole" in the nation's finances meant winter fuel payments would have to be axed for millions of pensioners and National Insurance hiked for employers.

Reports suggest that finance minister Rachel Reeves may introduce budget measures to help ease energy bills, having U-turned this year on plans to cut winter fuel payments to pensioners.

If you look at earnings, pensioners still have to pay income tax but are no longer subject to employee National Insurance.

She said it makes her "sad" to see people who are working full-time, or pensioners struggling to pay for food.

A police motorcyclist who crashed into a pensioner while escorting the Duchess of Edinburgh through London has been found not guilty of causing death by careless driving.