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The UK government intensified its efforts to respond to the cost-of-living crisis in May 2022, with a £5 billion windfall tax on energy companies to help fund a £15 billion support package for the public. The package included every household getting a £400 discount on energy bills, which would be in addition to a £150 council tax refund the ...
Sterling fell to its lowest since mid-July against the dollar on Monday as surging energy costs and a summer of strikes highlighted the UK cost of living crisis and intensified fears for further ...
During the 2020s, a cost-of-living crisis impacted many countries around the world amid global inflation. [3] [4] In February 2023, 3 out of 4 consumers globally were worried about the rising cost of everyday expenses. [5]
In 2020, the BBC reported the UK's housing gap was in excess of one million homes, [26] and previously (in 2019) that "An estimated 8.4 million people in England are living in an unaffordable, insecure or unsuitable home, according to the National Housing Federation". [27]
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The United Kingdom cost of living crisis is an ongoing event starting in 2021, in which prices for essential goods and services in the United Kingdom began increasing faster than household incomes, resulting in a fall in real incomes. The UK cost of living is currently the most affected of advanced economies.
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Between 1998 and 2012 the number of children living in "relative poverty" in the UK had fallen by approximately 800,000 to a total of around 3.5 million. Following the introduction of the Welfare Reform Act 2012 the number of children in "relative poverty" increased, with the total by 2019 around 600,000 higher than it had been in 2012.