Wales earmarks $6.6 million for heating aid that could reach 20,000 households

The funding is part of a £130 million ($171.8 million) cost-of-living package. Chancellor John Healey urged Wales to match England's planned £100 ($132) payment for council taxpayers in bands A-D.

About one million Welsh households were covered by the government's earlier commitment to the £100 ($132) energy payment, announced after October's U.K.