Charities warned some 2.5 million more households will fall into ‘fuel stress’ from April 1 onwards.
It feels like it should be an April Fool but unfortunately it isn’t – household bills are set to soar for millions of people from today as the energy price cap rises to record levels.Fuel stress, or fuel poverty, means a household is spending more than 10% of its total budgets on energy bills.
Citizens Advice chief executive Dame Clare Moriarty said: ‘The energy price cap rise will be potentially ruinous for millions of people across the country.
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