Energy companies to fund package aimed at combating rising fuel prices

Gordon Brown unveils a £900m package, funded by energy companies, to help millions with rising fuel bills.

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It will include help with home insulation for everyone, lower prices for poor households and a trebling of pensioners' cold weather payments but no windfall tax on the profits of the energy companies.

Brown also said he did not expect costs to be passed back to householders in higher bills.

We talk to some of the vulnerable people the government wants to help and find out if they'll really benefit.

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