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The poverty that older people are often particularly prone to is ‘fuel poverty’, not being able to afford proper heating. This is defined by the Faculty of Public Health as the situation where any household has to spend more than 10 per cent of its income on keeping warm. Older people need their houses to be warmer than younger people do, and often live in poorly insulated housing, or in their former family home, not having wished to move house, which is expensive to heat, particularly if they are living on their own. A total of 1.25 million pensioner households spend more than 10 per cent of their income on fuel.