April’s annual price hikes are always a blow but this year will be more awful than ever, adding an eye-watering £700 a year to average household spending.
Council tax, water, broadband, mobile, energy and NHS prescriptions are just some of those rising from yesterday, while Chancellor Jeremy Hunt’s latest tax hikes strike on Thursday.
It’s time to fight back and see where savings can be made.
This weekend has been dubbed “April the Worst”, as bill increases coincide with rising inflation and an 18.2 percent jump in food prices, said cost-of-living champion Greg Marsh, founder of household finances app Nous.co.
Price hikes could push millions of families who are just about managing over the edge and not just the poorest. “Even families with two incomes and above average earnings will struggle.”
The following bill hikes will make a typical family £682 a year worse…
