Ofgem and Tories under increasing pressure to stop cruel energy standing charges
New research shows overwhelming support for scrapping the flat-rate daily standing charge on our energy bills, as thousands share their ...
Tag: inequality
The government is doing nothing about the lies manufacturers sell to us about UK radiators – and it costs us billions
A documentary video produced by supplier UK Radiators has revealed the financial and ethical implications of misinformation in the heating ...
Spineless Ofgem has just allowed energy firms to restart forcing people onto prepayment meters
The energy regulator Ofgem has just agreed that three energy firms can start forcing vulnerable customers onto prepayment meters again. ...
UK families are suffering the ‘worst decline’ in living standards in the G7
The UK is only country in the G7 where household budgets have not recovered to pre-pandemic levels. That's the verdict ...
As workers ate lunch today, CEOs had already earned the equivalent of their annual salary
The median FTSE 100 CEO's earnings for 2024 surpassed the median annual salary for a full-time worker in the UK ...
The so-called ‘cost of living crisis’ has created a health inequalities ‘timebomb’ for HALF the poorest households
With the winter solstice bringing the longest night of the year, think tank the Joseph Rowntree Foundation (JRF) is warning ...
30% of people in Wales are set to spend Christmas in ‘Dickensian’ conditions
Around three-quarters of a million people in Wales (30%) are living in cold damp homes; exposed to the health complications ...
People have taken action UK-wide over fuel poverty – with a south London protest drawing unwanted attention
Campaign groups Fuel Poverty Action, Unite Community, and their allies held nationwide protests this weekend, carrying out ‘Warm Ups’ to ...
A south London shopping centre is going to be the centre of a protest over energy bills
A protest over fuel poverty is set to take place in one of south London's highest-profile shopping centres, the Glades. ...
Fuel poverty will be the subject of nationwide occupations this December as a campaign group ‘warms up’ its actions
Fuel Poverty Action is planning ‘Warm Up’ protests across the country on Friday 1 and Saturday 2 December, working with ...
Today’s inflation figures mean nothing: food prices rocket 30% in 2.5 years while the Tories eye benefit cuts
Inflation has fallen to 4.6% - down from 6.7% in September, official figures now show. However, a think tank has ...
Five million people driven into poverty by transport costs, a new report from a think tank warns
Transport costs are keeping five million people (8% of the UK population) below the poverty line, a think tank has ...
Fuel Poverty Action knocks loudly on the government’s door over prepayment meters
Campaign group Fuel Poverty Action held a protest outside the Department for Energy Security and Net Zero (DfES) on Wednesday ...
The North-South divide in fuel poverty narrows as more people in Southern England experience fuel poverty
New data shows from think tank the Open Data Institute (ODI) has revealed that the North-South divide in fuel poverty ...
‘Brutal and arrogant’ Tories lifting the bankers’ bonus cap has nothing to do with the economy
Rishi Sunak's Tory government has approved the lifting of the cap on bankers' bonuses. This means that the rule which ...
The Tories have presided over a 148% increase in destitution – with the DWP being the main problem
Successive Conservative governments have presided over a 148% increase in destitution since 2017. Destitution is classed as the most severe ...
Victorian-era diseases like rickets are on the rise again thanks to Tory-created poverty
Rickets - a disease associated with Victorian-era slums - is on the rise in Scotland, while other conditions linked to ...
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