Category: Household bills

Stop pushing heat pumps or face major backlash, green energy magnate tells Labour

Party donor Dale Vince warns that urging homeowners to switch to clean-power technology risks political storm bigger than UlezThe government risks a huge political backlash if it keeps pushing the public to install heat pumps to...

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Winter fuel cut savings will be far less than Reeves expected, new analysis finds

A surge in claims for pension credit will make thousands more people eligible for the payments and other benefitsRachel Reeves has been warned that her cut to pensioner winter fuel payments risks saving hundreds of millions less...

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Winter fuel: thousands more could lose benefit if it becomes means tested, data suggests

A further 175,000 pensioners are likely to stop receiving allowance under such plans, official figures showUK politics live – latest updatesA further 175,000 pensioners could lose the winter fuel allowance if the benefit...

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Billpayers in England and Wales tricked into ‘stealth bailout’ of water companies

Campaign group challenges industry regulator over price rises for customers that will pay to upgrade infrastructureThe water industry regulator has been accused of overseeing a “stealth bailout of water companies”...

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Remainder of year’s water bills will pay dividends and service debts, say campaigners

We Own It says 31% of water bills went on shareholder payouts and company debts in last financial year, while the same percentage of 2024 remainsTuesday is the day water bills will start servicing debt and paying shareholders...

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Politics Weekly Westminster: Winter fuel payments test for Labour – podcast

The Guardian’s Pippa Crerar and Kiran Stacey talk about Labour’s first big test in parliament over their winter fuel payments policy. Plus, will Keir Starmer’s trip to Washington be awkward after his decision...

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Winter fuel payments cut ‘one of the worst decisions I have ever seen’ says ex pensions minister

Crossbench peer will table ‘fatal’ Lords motion, as Starmer faces damaging rebellion in Commons vote• Steve Webb: There’s no need to cut poorer pensioners’ income. Smarter winter fuel solutions are...

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Labour ministers reveal grave concerns about winter fuel payment cut

Frontbenchers say they have had string of complaints from constituents and policy ‘won’t be worth the political hit’Cabinet ministers have grave concerns about Rachel Reeves’s plan to axe the winter fuel...

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Labour ministers have grave concerns about Reeves’s winter fuel payment cut

Frontbenchers say they have had string of complaints from constituents and policy ‘won’t be worth the political hit’Cabinet ministers have grave concerns about Rachel Reeves’s plan to axe the winter fuel...

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