There are 3.5 million (12.9%) households in the UK affected by fuel poverty. The purpose of this blog is to show that the current way of assessing the fuel poor via averaged annual bills and income is likely to reduce the numbers of people who are living in fuel poverty at certain times of the year. Moreover, this annual assessment may well lead to those people missing out from being eligible for the limited schemes available.
IGov 23rd Nov 2018 read more »