{"id":28007,"date":"2021-10-01T07:58:12","date_gmt":"2021-10-01T07:58:12","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.banglanewsus.com\/english\/?p=28007"},"modified":"2021-10-01T07:58:12","modified_gmt":"2021-10-01T07:58:12","slug":"millions-of-households-face-higher-gas-and-electricity-bills","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.banglanewsus.com\/english\/2021\/10\/01\/millions-of-households-face-higher-gas-and-electricity-bills\/","title":{"rendered":"Millions of households face higher gas and electricity bills"},"content":{"rendered":"<div class=\"ssrcss-uf6wea-RichTextComponentWrapper e1xue1i86\" data-component=\"text-block\">\n<div class=\"ssrcss-18snukc-RichTextContainer e5tfeyi1\">\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph eq5iqo00\"><b class=\"ssrcss-hmf8ql-BoldText e5tfeyi3\">A squeeze on household finances will become more acute as a new, higher energy price cap takes effect from Friday.<\/b><\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<div class=\"ssrcss-uf6wea-RichTextComponentWrapper e1xue1i86\" data-component=\"text-block\">\n<div class=\"ssrcss-18snukc-RichTextContainer e5tfeyi1\">\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph eq5iqo00\">Typical default domestic energy bills are rising by \u00a3139 a year, and prepayment meter customers will see a \u00a3153 increase.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<div class=\"ssrcss-uf6wea-RichTextComponentWrapper e1xue1i86\" data-component=\"text-block\">\n<div class=\"ssrcss-18snukc-RichTextContainer e5tfeyi1\">\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph eq5iqo00\">About 15 million households in England, Wales and Scotland are affected.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<div class=\"ssrcss-uf6wea-RichTextComponentWrapper e1xue1i86\" data-component=\"text-block\">\n<div class=\"ssrcss-18snukc-RichTextContainer e5tfeyi1\">\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph eq5iqo00\">The cap has come under the spotlight owing to the crisis among suppliers, which has seen nine firms fold.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A squeeze on household finances will become more acute as a new, higher energy price cap takes effect from Friday. Typical default domestic energy bills are rising by &pound;139 a year, and prepayment meter customers will see a &pound;153 increase. About 15 million households in England, Wales and Scotland are affected. The cap has come under the spotlight owing to the crisis among suppliers, which has seen nine firms fold.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":28008,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[30,12],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.banglanewsus.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/28007"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.banglanewsus.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.banglanewsus.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.banglanewsus.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.banglanewsus.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=28007"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.banglanewsus.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/28007\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":28009,"href":"https:\/\/www.banglanewsus.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/28007\/revisions\/28009"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.banglanewsus.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/28008"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.banglanewsus.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=28007"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.banglanewsus.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=28007"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.banglanewsus.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=28007"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}