Sky News: “Fuel poverty” is increasing in England

according to the international group Tasnim news agency, the results of a Research shows that despite the reduction in inflation in England, the increase in living costs is still a concern and 4.29 million households in this country will face “fuel poverty”.

Sky News Network According to a research conducted by “Outra” company, after the increase of the energy price ceiling in the past weeks, more than 465 thousand households have been added to the number of families facing this problem.

In October 2023, the number of households with fuel poverty that spent more than a tenth of their income to heat their homes was 3.83 million households. This figure has now increased by 12.2% and has reached 4.29 million households.

According to the explanation on the website of the British government, a household will be considered fuel poor. whose income falls below the poverty line after calculating the cost of heating the house. It has been controlled under the name of “ceiling of energy costs”. This law specifies the maximum price that suppliers can charge households for each unit of energy. Sky News reports that this cap has increased by an average of £94, from £1,834 to £1,928.

Outra said that although inflation in the UK has eased, households are still They are struggling with the crisis of rising living costs. Peter Jackson, the firm’s head of statistics and technology, said: “Our analysis of household-level data shows that while fuel prices have eased from their peak, the economic hardship for those struggling with rapidly rising living costs is far from over. “It hasn’t arrived,” he said. Inflation in the UK experienced a significant reduction in November, reaching its lowest level in two years. At the same time, the decline in housing prices in the UK continues to accelerate. In November, prices fell sharply compared to more than a dozen years ago. The UK Statistics Office announced that this figure decreased by 2.1% compared to November 2022 and was negative 1.3% in October. The largest decrease occurred in London.

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