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Manchester Evening News
Manchester Evening News
Business
Sophie Halle-Richards

Single mum 'terrified' as energy price cap rockets to £3,549 a year

As the school summer holidays draw to an end, single mum Bev Arrowsmith had felt a small sense of relief, as her children could return to eating free school meals and wouldn't be spending all day at home.

But after the announcement that the new energy price cap could see households paying an estimated £3,549 per year, Bev described that feeling being replaced with an 'impending sense of doom.'

She has already had to put new school uniform for her two children - aged six and 17 - on to a credit card, and now fears many of her next bills will have to be paid the same way.

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