{"id":506376,"date":"2026-04-01T03:17:11","date_gmt":"2026-04-01T03:17:11","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/506376\/"},"modified":"2026-04-01T03:17:11","modified_gmt":"2026-04-01T03:17:11","slug":"from-water-to-council-tax-how-the-bill-rises-and-one-drop-in-april-affect-you","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/506376\/","title":{"rendered":"From water to council tax: How the bill rises (and one drop) in April affect you"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">BT, EE, Plusnet and Virgin Media are all hiking broadband prices by \u00a34 a month, Sky by \u00a33, and Vodafone by \u00a33.50 &#8211; adding nearly \u00a350 per year to bills.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">Additionally, one in four broadband customers are out of contract, paying up to \u00a39 per month more than those in contract.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">Mobile phone providers also tend to have mid-contact price rises written into contracts, so many billpayers face increases.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">The cost of a TV licence has increased from \u00a3174.50 to \u00a3180 a year.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"BT, EE, Plusnet and Virgin Media are all hiking broadband prices by \u00a34 a month, Sky by \u00a33,&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":506377,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[11],"tags":[84,1294,56,54,55],"class_list":["post-506376","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\/506376","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=506376"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/506376\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/506377"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=506376"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=506376"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=506376"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}