{"id":12904,"date":"2023-11-26T08:31:35","date_gmt":"2023-11-26T03:01:35","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/farratanews.online\/poll-are-you-worried-about-your-energy-bills-this-winter-personal-finance-finance\/"},"modified":"2023-11-26T08:31:35","modified_gmt":"2023-11-26T03:01:35","slug":"poll-are-you-worried-about-your-energy-bills-this-winter-personal-finance-finance","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/farratanews.online\/poll-are-you-worried-about-your-energy-bills-this-winter-personal-finance-finance\/","title":{"rendered":"POLL: Are you worried about your energy bills this winter? | Personal Finance | Finance"},"content":{"rendered":"<p> [ad_1]\n<\/p>\n<div>\n<p>As of January 1 the average energy bill is on course to rise by \u00a394 (five percent) a year, pushing already stretched households to the brink.<\/p>\n<p>The energy price cap had dipped to \u00a31,834 a year in October, but will increase to \u00a31,928 a year in 2024.<\/p>\n<p>Following the news, charities have warned the most vulnerable will be the hardest hit.<\/p>\n<p>Gillian Cooper, director of energy at Citizens Advice, said: \u201cPrices going up during the coldest part of the year will make life harder for millions of people struggling to pay their bills.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cWe\u2019re already helping record numbers with energy debt and we\u2019re seeing more people than ever who can\u2019t afford to top up their prepayment meter.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;The Government missed the opportunity to announce extra support for households who desperately need it this winter.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThe lack of action means far too many households will now be forced to choose between heating and eating this winter.\u201d<\/p>\n<\/div>\n[ad_2]\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>[ad_1] As of January 1 the average energy bill is on course to rise by \u00a394 (five percent) a year, pushing already stretched households to the brink. The energy price cap had dipped to \u00a31,834 a year in October, but will increase to \u00a31,928 a year in 2024. Following the news, charities have warned the &hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":12905,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/farratanews.online\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12904"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/farratanews.online\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/farratanews.online\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/farratanews.online\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/farratanews.online\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=12904"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/farratanews.online\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12904\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/farratanews.online\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/12905"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/farratanews.online\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=12904"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/farratanews.online\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=12904"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/farratanews.online\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=12904"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}