{"id":387469,"date":"2026-01-24T06:14:08","date_gmt":"2026-01-24T06:14:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/387469\/"},"modified":"2026-01-24T06:14:08","modified_gmt":"2026-01-24T06:14:08","slug":"cost-of-living-are-things-going-to-get-better-for-your-finances","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/387469\/","title":{"rendered":"Cost of living: Are things going to get better for your finances?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">The UK&#8217;s rate of inflation has risen, but the chancellor, in response, promised that Britain would this year turn a corner.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">Rachel Reeves said cutting the cost of living was her &#8220;number one focus&#8221;, following comments from Prime Minister Sir Keir Starmer who claimed that every minute not talking about it was &#8220;a wasted minute&#8221;.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">It is a clear strategy ahead of local, Scottish and Welsh elections in May, driven in part by difficulties in boosting <a href=\"https:\/\/www.bbc.co.uk\/news\/articles\/c8d041pp85mo\" class=\"ssrcss-6mgqu7-InlineLink e1kn3p7n0\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">economic growth<\/a>, and also in knowing there could soon be better news to tell.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">But many households are still struggling to cover essential bills, and others are unconvinced of improvement.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">Here are some of the key factors affecting family finances and whether government policies can, or do, have an impact.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"The UK&#8217;s rate of inflation has risen, but the chancellor, in response, promised that Britain would this year&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":387470,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[11],"tags":[84,1294,56,54,55],"class_list":["post-387469","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-economy","tag-business","tag-economy","tag-uk","tag-united-kingdom","tag-unitedkingdom"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/387469","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=387469"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/387469\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/387470"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=387469"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=387469"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=387469"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}