From January, there will be a strong high bills for the sixth consecutive quarter
With the new year coming a sting on bills for Italian families. “The alarms launched in recent weeks by experts, industrialists and consumer associations will materialize in the last days of the year, when the updates for the electricity and natural gas tariffs, in force for the period January-March 2022, will be communicated. sixth consecutive quarter, the costs of bills will increase and will be record increases “, writes Repubblica.
Increase of over 800 euros on the annual cost for families
“For households and small businesses, electricity will increase between 20 and 25% compared to the previous three months, while the growth for natural gas will be even heavier, in an expected interval between 35 and 40. % “. Which means, in a nutshell, about 800 euros more per family. Always Repubblica: “For an average family, an increase of 136 and 679 euros would be triggered respectively, a total of 815 euros on the annual cost, which, however, already add to the strong increases recorded in the last quarter of 2021. If then the electricity bills reached a higher 25%, the higher annual expenditure would be 879 euros “.
Emergency also on food, three billion from the government are needed
The situation is really complicated also because there are not only increases in energy: “the latest Istat surveys indicate ever more consistent and inexorable increases in the cost of basic necessities, starting with food”. For this the government is looking for another three billion. The money already provided for in the budget law is not enough to “sterilize” the increases in electricity and gas arriving in the winter months.
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