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❌ “We've made sure that no family, no household, is having to pay more than £2,500 on those energy bills” - Liz Truss According to the government’s own figures, this isn’t true. Some households with higher usage will pay more. 🔍 👉

is intended to reduce the amount the households will pay for gas and electricity from 1 October 2022.

The policy limits the amount consumers can be charged per unit of gas or electricity. For customers in Great Britain on a standard variable tariff paying by direct debit, this limit will be 34.0p/kWh for electricity and 10.3p/kWh for gas. A limit will also apply to the rates households on pre-payment meters pay for each unit of energy, though the government says there will be a small difference between the unit costs for a pre-payment meter customer and other bill payers, while households not on standard contracts will receive equivalent support

According to the government, this price cap means that based on the median consumption of households in Great Britain in 2019, the average household will pay £2,500 a year, for two years, from 1 October.Despite Ms Truss’s comments on CNN, it’s not true that under these plans “no family, no household” will pay more than £2,500.show that the amount households will pay, even under the new Energy Price Guarantee, will vary.

Capping the unit price of energy is not the only support provided by the government, which is also providing households in Great Britain

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