{"id":2455,"date":"2022-02-10T04:00:00","date_gmt":"2022-02-10T04:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"im-23188"},"modified":"-0001-11-30T00:00:00","modified_gmt":"-0001-11-30T00:00:00","slug":"support-with-rising-energy-bills","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/ep-accountants.co.uk\/support-with-rising-energy-bills\/","title":{"rendered":"Support with rising energy bills"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The Chancellor, Rishi Sunak delivered a statement to the House of Commons on 3 February 2022 announcing a number of measures to help people cope with fast rising energy costs.<\/p>\n<p>Record increases will see a 54% jump in the energy price cap from 1 April 2022 affecting some 22 million customers across the UK. This will mean the average consumer paying by direct debit will face an annual increase of &pound;693 from &pound;1,277 to &pound;1,971 per year with those paying by prepayment facing even higher costs. The price cap is updated twice a year and tracks wholesale energy and other costs that have seen.<\/p>\n<p>The emergency package of measures announced by the Chancellor will see the government offer support with energy bills worth &pound;9.1 billion in 2022-23.<\/p>\n<p>This includes:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>A &pound;200 discount on their energy bill this Autumn for domestic electricity customers in Great Britain. This will be paid back automatically over the next 5 years starting in 2023-4 when wholesale gas prices are expected to come down.<\/li>\n<li>A &pound;150 non-repayable Council Tax Rebate payment for all households that are liable for Council Tax in Bands A-D in England.<\/li>\n<li>&pound;144 million of discretionary funding for Local Authorities to support households who need support but are not eligible for the Council Tax Rebate.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>The devolved administrations will receive around &pound;715 million funding through the Barnett formula where UK Government support doesn&rsquo;t cover Scotland, Wales or Northern Ireland.<\/p>\n<div style='font-size:smaller' class='im_source'>Source: HM Treasury   Tue, 08 Feb 2022 00:00:00 +0100<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Chancellor, Rishi Sunak delivered a statement to the House of Commons on 3 February 2022 announcing a number of measures to help people cope with fast rising energy costs.<\/p>\n<p>Record increases will see a 54% jump in the energy price cap from 1 April<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":2456,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_seopress_robots_primary_cat":"","_seopress_titles_title":"","_seopress_titles_desc":"","_seopress_robots_index":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[37],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/ep-accountants.co.uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2455"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/ep-accountants.co.uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/ep-accountants.co.uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ep-accountants.co.uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ep-accountants.co.uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2455"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/ep-accountants.co.uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2455\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ep-accountants.co.uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/2456"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/ep-accountants.co.uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2455"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ep-accountants.co.uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2455"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ep-accountants.co.uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2455"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}