A woman has told how she has to go to bed in the evening to keep warm because she can only afford to heat her home for two hours a day.
Jean Hull, 73, from Grangetown in Sunderland, said rooms in her home were often only 10C (50F) - an ideal room should be between 18-21C.
She said she felt that changing the rules on the payment of the winter fuel allowance was "wrong" and that promises to pensioners had been "broken."
The government said it was supporting older people and one million pensioners were still receiving the payment this winter.