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

[RedHillLady]

Band D property Council Tax has gone up £156 it's now £2446 a year.
Water Rates - gone up by £221 to £857 a year.
Currently on a fixed tarrif for gas and electricy and pay £175 a month

How much have your bills gone up.

I live in an area of South West Wales with high levels of poverty and depravation.

I live in a cheap part of the country and my bills haven't gone up that much, but it all adds up, doesn't it? Not helped by the fact my mortgage was up for renewal during the interest rate spike.

Council tax gone up extra £30 a month
Water gone up extra £17
Gas and Electric are on a pre payment meter but I’m averaging £30 a week each

It’s other stuff as well. Netflix is now £12.99, my yearly Microsoft office subscription is £84.99 - I’m sure it was only £60 or so a couple of years ago. Feels like we’re being absolutely gouged.

Thames Water from £540 to £750 a year (and they took the first £375 at 5 past midnight yesterday - grab it while you can!)

Isn’t it absolutely shocking

The government sold our utility companies to private equity groups and now they are financially ruining us whilst they line their pockets with profits

While the water companies hardly invest in their facilities and cause mass pollution in our rivers etc

Council tax is up about 5%
Not sure about gas/electric as currently on a fixed rate but guessing they might need to up my direct debit as I seem to be using more than expected
Main one is water rates, up over 30%

My water rate went up £30 for the YEAR, I couldn’t afford those increases you all are posting!

The super rich have brought up all the world’s resources and are now selling them back to us at extortionate rates.

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

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

Not as much as this time last year, thankfully.

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...

@TheStroppyFeminist

that is a huge jump on your mortgage

woe happened?!

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

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.

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

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.

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 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 """"

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

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.

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.

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.

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.

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