Middle-income families will also find it hard to cope with new energy cap in April, says thinktankThe number of households suffering from “fuel stress” – those spending at least 10% of their family budgets on energy bills – is set to treble to 6.3m ove…
Protecting vulnerable from £700 hike in energy bills means hard choices now | Nils Pratley
The options are unattractive but a massively expanded warm homes scheme gets the vote hereIt’s choose your poison time for a government that must know allowing low-income households to suffer the full blast of the scheduled rise in energy bills in Apri…
Gordon Brown warns 3.5m households face fuel poverty this winter
Former prime minister says 2021 ‘worst time to be poor’ as he calls for support for struggling householdsThe former prime minister Gordon Brown has demanded fresh government financial support for households struggling to pay energy bills as he warned a…
Energy firm Bulb under fire for monthly bill rises of up to 80%
Many customers are being forced to pay much higher direct debit payments, despite being hundreds of pounds in creditEnergy company Bulb has come under fire from its customers who say it is using them like a bank. It is forcing them to pay higher bills …
UK households face second record energy bill rise
Analysts predict a further 14% jump for spring 2022 on top of next month’s scheduled £139 riseMillions of households could face a second record jump in energy bills next spring, on top of the £139 increase due next month, as the global gas crisis conti…
Kwarteng admits ‘difficult winter’ ahead as energy bills soar
Business secretary says vulnerable customers will be protected, as he distances himself from universal credit cutKwasi Kwarteng has said it “could be a very difficult winter”, with families facing rising energy bills, as he sought to distance himself f…
To the family choosing whether to heat or eat, the energy cap isn’t ‘fair’ at all
The Ofgem price cap is set to rise to unaffordable levels for households let down by this government’s energy failuresWhen the nights begin to draw in this winter, millions of homes across the country will find themselves left out in the cold thanks to…
Calls for social tariff on UK energy bills as rises push extra half million homes into fuel poverty
With global gas prices at 16-year high, cash-strapped consumers are braced for soaring costs this winterThe government faces calls to bring in a social tariff to help struggling households pay their energy bills as soaring prices threaten to drive an e…