there until her dad finished work and we came home. there until her dad finished work and we came home. that is a really difficult situation. and we came home. that is a really difficult situation. so and we came home. that is a really difficult situation. so you and we came home. that is a really difficult situation. so you really - difficult situation. so you really can t be at home because it is simply too cold and it costs too much to heat the place?- simply too cold and it costs too - much to heat the place?- have much to heat the place? yeah. have ou not much to heat the place? yeah. have you got any much to heat the place? yeah. have you got any thoughts? much to heat the place? yeah. have you got any thoughts? we much to heat the place? jew have you got any thoughts? we were much to heat the place? ie gi have you got any thoughts? we were just hearing whether from our forecaster that it will get worse in the next few days the weather. i m that it will get worse in
because there will be people who are seen to be too well off to get state help, but on the other hand are already struggling with high fuel costs. so that s coming down the line. the other area where there is a potential question mark is how much extra people will have to pay in council tax next year. the treasury is assuming that 95% of councils will hike council tax up. for political reasons some of them might not but you won t necessarily know until much later whether it will be your counsel or whether you will be your counsel or whether you will be your counsel or whether you will be affected. but in essence taxes are going to go up because the thresholds at which people start paying tax will be frozen, possibly council tax going up by as much as 5% in some areas, and yourfuel bills going up too unless you are in receipt of benefits or state pension. receipt of benefits or state ension. : receipt of benefits or state pension- receipt of benefits or state ension. : :, , :, :, pensi
delayed until after the next general election when there will be a 1% real terms rise in public spending but that will mean that many unprotected departments, according to the government s own watchdog, the office for budget responsibility, they suggest that many of these unprotected departments will suffer real terms cuts. but that will be after the next election. that said, there will be some pain this side of the election, not so much spending cuts but those tax rises you referred to. so, for example, we are facing potentially a hike in council tax next year because the treasury is assuming that 95% of local authorities will raise council tax by up to 5%. in addition, if you are not a pensioner and you are not on benefits then you will see a big rise in yourfuel bills potentially as well next april. jeremy hunt was talking down the prospect, though, of a big hike in fuel duty, in fuel taxes, next
to various services and rising energy prices aren t far from people s minds. well, if i can t afford it, i won t put it on because i won t get into debt i ve never been in debt in my life. i d just cut back on food, as well, if i had to. i d have a tin of soup and a roll! and, you know, hopefully that would warm you up! when you hear of anyone struggling about any bills that they are having, especially the energy bills, it s talk, make sure that they talk to their suppliers, because burying your head in the sand only makes this sort of situation worse and it only gets bigger and bigger. there could be other pots of small grants available that people can access that they don t know about and potentially we don t know about them at the moment, but if they are out there, then we ll find them and hopefully we ll sort of be able to pass it on to the people that need it. citizens advice predict, by october, a quarter of us won t be able to afford ourfuel bills with even more people hit