THE Scottish Government has relaunched a programme which aims to improve the homes of people living in fuel poverty.
, said the programme will “liberate” people facing fuel poverty as a result of increasing fossil-fuel prices.programme, which was first launched in 2015, has been allocated an additional £728 million over the next seven years.
The second phase of the programme will launch on Monday, at the start of Challenge Poverty Week, an initiative started by Scottish charity Poverty Alliance which aims to highlight the injustice of poverty in Scotland. He continued: “We are now ramping up our support and making a long-term investment in helping those in fuel poverty through the energy transition.
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