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The support is being paid to residents in Dudley through Dudley Borough Council's Household Support fund - this is a Government scheme designed to help those most vulnerable with the cost of living
The £106 payment is designed to help people in the wider Inverness area cope with the cost-of-living crisis and winter energy bills.
A sum of £200,000 Inverness Common Good Funding has been allocated by the Highland Council for the Winter Payments scheme.
And there is more uncertainty for pensioners, as ministers refuse to guarantee pensions will rise in line with inflation, as previously promised. clearly people on low and fixed incomes like pensions are the hardest hit by this crisis and, remember, energy bills, despite government support, will be twice as expensive going into this winter as they were into the last. but even people with decent paying jobs are seeing the cost—of—living accelerate faster than their wages, making them a bit poorer every day. it's the biggest cost—of—living squeeze since the 1950s and for millions of peop...
Things in the house. with respect to the move away from fossil fuels, he and i are in agreement and i think that we need a diverse supply of de—carbonised sources of energy and finally, i dispute the fact that we are ill—prepared. we have a solar process in place, we have the essay or process, we have stress tested those during the whole of the covid period and they are under constant contact with the industry and i feel that we have so far managed to accommodate such supply failure is that we have seen with existing structures. that we have seen with existing structures-— that we have s...