To be fed up of all the price rises! How much have your bills gone up?

Council tax up 8% (around £20 a month)
Don't pay for water (Scotland)
Energy is fixed until September
Broadband/Mobiles went up by about £3 or something each
Car insurance actually came down by £80 this year (paid annually)

All negligible, basically.

£296 a month that’s outrageous! Did you get an answer?

Yup, all the usual and my council tax has gone up to £190 pcm so total £2,280 and that’s with a single persons discount! It’s a frightening time to be sure to be living alone and in a mortgaged property to boot with everything rising around me!

My water has gone up from £100 per month to £296 so I'm assuming a mistake somewhere. Just bracing myself for a 3 hour long session of being on hold to get it sorted.

It wouldn't be so bad if there was an end in sight, or at least a plateau for a couple/few years but we just see it continuing.

Councils are going to continue to raise council tax by the highest they can, because the costs of human care is exponentially rising. And we import most of our essentials, particularly food and with the change in climate (hottest first day ever of May for instance) makes food supplies much more uncertain, so farmers will need to get the highest prices for the produce they have.

But what to do? We have a society that, for complex reasons, finds it more difficult to look after family members without state help and no one wants to sacrifice anything, or most certainly not enough, and this is worldwide not just local, to help the planet adapt to continuing increasing carbon emissions.

This is the result.

There is definitely a shift towards more people having less disposable income.

No one wants to invest in renewable energy now so that we have a more stable energy supply in 20 years. So we will put expensive sticking plasters over everything until our kids have to pay for what is needed in one go, yay go us!

On the plus side we do live in a temperate climate, the population of the UK will be able to not fry or freeze as quickly as some.

I think I read Martin from MSE talking about this. It includes an AI addition or something, but if you don’t want that then it is cheaper.

here it is www.moneysavingexpert.com/news/2025/02/microsoft-365-price-hike/

Yep! The super-rich have brought up all the worlds resources and are now selling them back to us for 10 x the price.

Yep

West of Scotland - rises per month

• council tax £47 (water included in Scotland)
• Netflix £2
• Gas and electric £25
• Sky (TV, broadband) £14
• X2 mobile phones £6
• extra charge for garden waste £5
• pet insurance for 2 cats £4

so £103 and that’s before house and car insurance. Workplace pension going up about £4 a month (I’m not yet in receipt of state pension). I’m lucky though as DH still works and I work part time so we are ok but I really feel for those who will really struggle with these rises.

Council tax is £10 more a month and other than that ours are pretty much the same. Any streaming platforms we have are the basic packages with ads so they're all £5-6 each. We live in a cheap area so even when our fixed rate mortgage changed it only went up by about £60 a month last year.

I’ve seen some increases but not too bad overall:
ctax +£13pm
Mobile £1.80pm
Broadband £1.33pm
Bank account fee £5pm
TV licence 88p

So that’s just £22.01. I’ve not seen an increase on water but my next bill isn’t for 6 months and I’m on a fix with energy until August.

On top of other bills, food has gone up so much. We are three adults and the bills have gone from about £100 a week for food and drink to £150 for the same stuff.

Our council tax has shot up (council merged and is going bankrupt) but gas/electric has come down from £175 a month to £140.

Council tax is up by £20 a month, water by £25 a month. Thames Water who are now charging me around £900 a year. Rent up by £110 a month, electric, well they just tried to increase my DD by £100 a month, robbing """"

Band D property, £2256 PA.
nursery and childcare fees have gone from £570 to £720pm.
gas and electric have gone from £90 (!!) to £140pm
food shop (aldi) is £160 per week for 2 adults and a child. Used to do it on £100 per week. Water has gone up £30pm.
£1550 for the house, used to be £895

i live in a naice area in Surrey but my relatives across the Hampshire border 4 miles away are much the same.

£7 for lurpak in the co op the other day.

Council tax up 5.5%
Water up 25%
Broadband up 10%
Netflix up by £3pm

It stings but I had a small payrise in December, Unfortunately DH changed jobs last year and took a small pay cut so that evened out.

Luckily we can absorb the rises due to having previously cut our outgoings to the bone. I feel for those that are really struggling.

Some of these council and water rate increases are shocking.
Surely some can’t afford the increases? What then?

I’d assume that they came off a low fixed rate and had to move to deal with the higher base rate in the remortgage.

Our council tax has gone up 15% and water 27% (in addition to all the food, energy etc) 🤯

@TheStroppyFeminist

that is a huge jump on your mortgage

woe happened?!

Council tax up by £40 per month. Gas and electric up £50 per month. Haven't been told the water increase yet...

My employer says no payrise due to the government tax rise (NI). So we all just suffer...

Not as much as this time last year, thankfully.

Mortgage from £450 to £1.2k a month
Gas & electricity from £300 to £550
council tax £380, is about to increase further
Water is £73 compared to £38 last year

luckily we can afford it

Ours have gone up £70 a month, that's just wiped out any payrise..