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Daily Record
Daily Record
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Kathryn Anderson

Many residents facing an "impossible hill to climb" as annual budgets stretched by £3000

Councillors have been told the average Perth and Kinross household will see its annual budget stretched by around £3000 just for essentials.

A senior Perth and Kinross Council officer this week told a PKC committee many struggling families faced "an impossible hill to climb".

Free school meal applications have tripled and - "most worrying of all" - there has been a 262 per cent increase in the utilities debt caseload for Citizens Advice.

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