When 80-year-old Yvonne Bailey heard about the latest energy bill hikes, she felt “completely sick”.

“My heart went in my stomach,” she tells Big Issue. “I felt ‘oh my God’, where am I going to get this extra money from? I’m going to have to cut out something else again, you know, go back to eating just soup.”

“I can’t remember the last time I had proper meat, like lamb, or beef. I can’t afford it, nowhere near.”

Widowed for 28 years, the Oxfordshire pensioner lives alone. The same year that her husband died, Bailey lost her only son in a tragic road accident.

Life in her social housing bungalow can be lonely – as Bailey told us last year – but she “just about gets by” on her state pension and pension credit .

But the latest cap increase may upend her modest budget.

“It’s reall

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