£438 fuel poverty gap for customers

People struggling with energy costs face a gap of £438 between their bills and what they can afford to pay - an increase of almost £200 on a decade ago.

A new measure for fuel poverty, highlighting families facing both high energy bills and low incomes, showed just under 2.4 million households in England were struggling to meet costs in 2011, the most recent year for which figures are available.
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