Winter heating bills set to jump as inflation hits home
“To make ends meet, families are cutting deeply. Nearly 22% of Americans had to reduce or forego expenses for basic necessities, such as medicine or food, to pay an energy bill in at least one of the last 12 months, according to a September survey by the U.S. Census Bureau.
‘This is going to create significant hardship for people in the bottom third of the country,’ said Mark Wolfe, executive director of the National Energy Assistance Directors’ Association. ‘You can tell them to cut back and try to turn down the heat at night, but many low-income families already do that. Energy was already unaffordable to them.'”