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(Picture: PA Wire)More than a third of people living in England’s most deprived neighbourhoods were struggling to pay their daily bills even before April’s surge in energy prices, official data has revealed.
The proportion of adults in these areas who found it “difficult” or “very difficult” to “pay their usual households bills” such as for food, fuel and energy, rose from 25 per cent in November to 34 per cent in March, according to the Office for National Statistics.
