What will happen to UK energy bills in April?

Uncertainty over who will receive support amid predictions of costs rising to £5,000 a year

A stressed customer examining her energy bills
Government support for energy bills will now last six months not two years
(Image credit: Chris Rout/Alamy Stock Photo)

Households are facing average energy bills as high as £5,000 from April following Liz Truss’s latest policy U-turn.

Under the government’s energy price guarantee, a typical household using both gas and electricity would have paid £2,500 annually for two years.

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