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Poorer families pay hundreds of pounds extra to keep their homes warm
(21/01/2011)

According to new research carried out by Save the Children, families on low incomes are paying nearly £1,300 more each year for basic goods, services and heating their homes than the better off – a rise of more than a fifth since the survey was last carried out in 2007. Around 20% of this poverty premium is the additional costs paid for by the poor on fuel bills. The reason for the difference is that gas and electricity companies routinely ch... [more]

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