{"id":608327,"date":"2026-05-28T11:00:22","date_gmt":"2026-05-28T11:00:22","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/608327\/"},"modified":"2026-05-28T11:00:22","modified_gmt":"2026-05-28T11:00:22","slug":"energy-bills-to-rise-as-uk-price-cap-jumps-13-what-can-be-done-channel-4-news","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/608327\/","title":{"rendered":"Energy bills to rise as UK price cap jumps 13% \u2013 what can be done? \u2013 Channel 4 News"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The maximum amount that energy companies can charge per unit will go up by 13% in July to reflect the increasing costs of fuel, especially gas, due to the ongoing conflict between the US, Israel and Iran.<\/p>\n<p>A typical household would see bills rise by \u00a3221 a year, but homes on fixed tariffs are not affected.<\/p>\n<p>The government has said it will consider more targeted help for some households later in the year when more energy is used due to colder weather.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"The maximum amount that energy companies can charge per unit will go up by 13% in July to&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":608328,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[11],"tags":[84,1294,56,54,55],"class_list":["post-608327","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\/608327","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=608327"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/608327\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/608328"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=608327"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=608327"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=608327"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}