How people may get help to pay high energy bills
With higher bills set to climb even higher, what are the government’s options for softening the blow? …
On its current trajectory, the energy price cap, which limits what providers can charge consumers, is likely to rise to close to £2,000 a year for dual fuel customers using a typical amount of energy. That will treble the number of households under “fuel stress”, in other words spending more than a tenth of their income on energy, to 6.3 million.