Homes across Merseyside hit with massive rise in energy bills from today
A rise in the energy price cap means a typical UK family can expect to see fuel costs going up £700 pounds
Homes across Merseyside are being hit with a massive rise in energy bills from today.
Turning your central heating on this morning will have cost you around an average 54 per cent more than it did yesterday.
A rise in the energy price cap means a typical UK family can expect to see fuel costs going up £700 this year.
Families like Elaine's who's been telling us she'll have to make big sacrifices as a result :
"It wrecks your head, you just don't know where the money is going to come from.
"We only live off £420 a month. We've got £160 food bill, £96 to the rent, £70 towards gas and electric and water, I don't even know how much that is yet.
"There won't be no days out and holidays and expensive training shoes they'll definetly be getting cut down. The car costs a fortune to run so if it continues to go higher then we won't be running a car anymore".
There is some help out there though, If you pay council tax on a house in Band A to D, then you'll get some help in the form of a £150 refund to part-cover the rising costs.
There will also be a £200 deduction on this years energy bill, which you'll have to pay back across the next 5 years.
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