UK’s Fuel Poverty to Grip Over 20% of Households, Charity Says
- Cost-of-living crisis gets worse, National Energy Action says
- Millions are disconnecting from energy supplies this winter
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The number of UK households in fuel poverty will continue to worsen, touching 6.5 million from January, because of a planned energy price increase and the scaling back of government support.
Many Britons, struggling with high energy bills on top of a cost-of-living crisis, are already using “shocking coping tactics,” National Energy Action said in a statement published Wednesday, with 2 million people “self-disconnecting” and going without any power and natural gas use.