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Payment to bank account of £115, to help towards household bills for households receiving council tax support Discretionary payments for households in need and not receiving council tax support
The Family Spending 2009 Edition, released in November 2010, found that the average household spend fell from £471 per week in 2008 to £455 in 2009. [7] This was the first fall in average household spend since 2001-02, when the current system of measuring was introduced to allow better international comparisons.
Millions across the country will see their outgoings increase from the end of this week, forcing more into poverty
The package included every household getting a £400 discount on energy bills, which would be in addition to a £150 council tax refund the government had already ordered. For about 8 million of the UK's lowest-income households, a further £650 payment was announced.
Its latest household financial confidence tracker survey found more than a third (36%) of households with children at home are struggling to afford energy bills.
Don't Pay UK was a grassroots direct action campaign in the United Kingdom that urge collective non-payment of energy bills. [ 1 ] [ 2 ] They planned to begin non-payment on 1 October 2022, when regulator Ofgem 's price cap was set to rise, if one million individuals had signed up.
The regulator said the increase would see the typical bill for a household in England, Scotland and Wales increasing from £1,717 to £1,738-a-year, or by around £1.75-a-month. It follows the ...
The Office for National Statistics said higher domestic energy bills pushed up consumer price inflation up to 2.3% in the year to October from the three-year low of 1.7% recorded the previous month. Stubbornly high inflation in the services sector, which accounts for around 80% of the British economy, didn't help either.