Uwefuchs
Well-known member
You will be getting £400 in October on top of the £150 council tax rebate (If band A-D). Once the new price cap is announced the Government will probably announce more help. Plus councils have a discretionary fund you can apply for if you are in hardship.
In October my bills will probably be about 370 quid that's an increase of over £2500 a year compared to what I was paying a year ago.
£550 help from the government doesn't even touch the sides, then you've got petrol which must be up about 50% from a year ago and the same with food.
I don't know what hardship payments are available but both of us work in our house so I doubt it'll be anything.
Its probably the equivalent of about 5 grand a year being taken out of our disposable income, I'm not sure how many people can absorb that.
I made the point last year on here that as a country we just seem to accept our energy bills tripling without any protest. Where does it stop, will my gas and electric be 2 grand a month in a couple of years? At some point the government need to do something drastic and a 400 quid discount on bills isn't the answer.