An extra 17.4% for gas and 10.8% for electricity has been added to energy bills in the latest round of price hikes. The average annual bill has hit £1,287, with bill payers using around 40% of their annual usage during the winter months.
Everyone’s talking about the government’s ‘Green Deal’, but what does it actually mean? And, more importantly, what’s in it for us?
Would you throw take £100 out of the cashpoint and throw it down the drain? Of course not! But that’s exactly what many of us are doing when it comes to our utility bills.
Ever been bamboozled by your energy bill? Don’t panic, help is on its way
Energy, Utilities 1 CommentHave you ever received an energy bill and not really understood what the charges meant (apart from the fact they had to be paid by a certain date, or else?)
Or have you ever ended up locked in a new energy deal without even realising you'd signed up?
Heard about the VAT rise? Unhappy about the VAT rise? Most importantly: want to beat the VAT rise?
There’s no way around it: we’ll all be paying an extra 2.5% on most of our purchases from January 4, and a further 1% on our energy bills.
But the question is: how soon? Are there clever ways you can avoid the VAT increase from hurting you as much as your neighbours? You bet there are…
Vampires are cool in fiction and film at the moment, and frankly, as long as that’s fake blood they’re drinking, good for them.
Vampires around your house, though, drinking money out your wallet? Not such a good idea…
Still, we all have them – and we tolerate them! I’m talking about vampire electronics: the electrical items that drain your bank account even when they’re switched off.
You’d be amazed what’s responsible, and how much they cost you.
