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In the UK this week, the news is that fuel bills will be going up yet again more than inflation, more people will be in fuel poverty, but people can get help to make savings, insulation grants are available, and people can switch to a cheaper supplier.

Fuel Bills increasing is true but the others are nonsense.

People are only in fuel poverty if they put the heating on and run up bills, these people then get more sympathy than the people who go without to live within their budgets some of whom don't even have central heating.

People can only get help to make savings if they are already very wasteful and if you made the savings this year what do you do next year. That owl thing that tells you how much electricity you are using is only helpful to people don't already know anything that gets hot or moves costs a lot of money to run.

Insulation (loft and cavity wall insulation) is only helpful to people who have accessible lofts and cavity walls and there is no help for the more difficult cases e.g. making loft access and for solid walls.

If you switch from one supplier to another the other then puts their bills up too so there is no point having the upset.

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Insulation (loft and cavity wall insulation) is only helpful to people who have accessible lofts and cavity walls and there is no help for the more difficult cases e.g. making loft access and for solid walls

There is a new initiative called the Green Deal which is supposed to help people like me. The idea is that I will be lent the money to insulate the solid walls and it will be paid back out of the savings in my bills.

I am not sure this does actually help me because that would mean I wasn't actually making any savings wouldn't it? I would want to use thew savings to have more heat and increase the bills otherwise what is the point.