davieG Posted 1 April 2017 Share Posted 1 April 2017 National Hike Day: 16 things that will become more expensive from April 1 By DanielJBird | Posted: April 01, 2017 National Hike Day: 16 things that will become more expensive from April 1 Today is 'National Price Hike Day' when people across the country will be hit with another raft of inflation busting price increases. Many of your day to day activities will cost more with each household having to find an extra £90 over the next 12 months to cover the costs, according to research from comparison website money.co.uk. Hannah Maundrell, Editor in Chief money.co.uk, said: "From postage to prescription and dental costs, your wallet is going to be hit left, right and centre. These hikes may appear to be small and 'nothing to worry about', but add them all together and it could cost you around £90 extra over the next year. "While you can't avoid some of the increases, you can certainly take control when it comes to managing the cost of your energy, phone and broadband. Here we take a look at 16 things – from bills to stamps – that will cost more from today: 1. Council tax bills are expected to go up by an average of 4% in England and Wales. 2. Water bills will increase by £6 (2%) to £395 for the average household. 3. Prescription costs will also go up by 20p from £8.40 to £8.60. 4. NHS dental charges payable for a check-up will increase by 90p (almost 5%) from £19.70 to £20.60. 5. First-class stamps have risen from 64p to 65p and the price of a second-class stamp has gone up to 56p. Posting a small parcel now costs 5p more up from £3.35 to £3.40. 6. TV licence costs will also go up by £1.50 from £145.50 to £147. 7. Air Passenger Duty on long haul flights (over 2,000 miles) is set to increase by 2.74%, hiking flight costs by as much as £12. 8. BT will roll out their planned price hikes on the 2nd April which includes; 'Basic Broadband' going up by £2 per month (£35.99 with landline inc), BT Infinity 1 and 2 are both going up by £2.50 per month, landline calls will go up by 1p (to 12p and 16p), BT Sport (Sky box users) increasing by £1.50 per month and call plans (such as weekend calls) will cost a whopping 30p more. 9. EE bills will rise by 2.5% across the board in line with January RPI. 10. O2 bills will also increase by 2.6% in line with February RPI, alongside a hike to all call charges outside the monthly allowance. 11. Vodafone customers that took out a monthly plan on or after the 5th May 2016 will see a bill hike of 3.2% in line with March RPI. 12. Scottish Power customers will see their standard dual fuel bills rocket by an average of 7.8% or £86 per year. 13. nPower dual fuel bills have just gone up by 9.8%, leaving customers on a standard variable tariff £110 out of pocket on average. 14. Co-op Energy bills will crank up prices across its standard rates by 5%, leaving those with a dual fuel tariff typically £58 worse off. 15. EoN is also jumping on the bandwagon later this month with an average price hike of 8.8% for its dual fuel customers meaning an annual bill hike of £97 on average. 16. SSE will not be increasing its gas prices, however 2.8 million electricity customers will be hit with an eye watering 14.9% price hike at the end of the month, so dual fuel customers will be landed with an extra £73 to pay a year on average. Read more at http://www.leicestermercury.co.uk/8203-national-hike-day-16-things-that-will-become-more-expensive-from-april-1/story-30241694-detail/story.html#EWBVIXZsw4rejRBM.99 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Parafox Posted 1 April 2017 Share Posted 1 April 2017 Well, that made my day a whole lot better Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
LcFc_Smiv Posted 1 April 2017 Share Posted 1 April 2017 Number 8 and number 12 are both already robbing t***s and I bet their increases won't go towards improving their poor attempt at customer services. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Strokes Posted 1 April 2017 Share Posted 1 April 2017 I thought it was the 5th April as that's the tax year end? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Innovindil Posted 1 April 2017 Share Posted 1 April 2017 Plenty of happy shareholders out there right now then. Eventually this march for profit profit profit will have to end. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
fuchsntf Posted 1 April 2017 Share Posted 1 April 2017 APRIL SHOWERRRRRSSS, come what may... Bills, bills,...No money left for your hols, besides Brexit another way to keep the Brits out of Europe....Skeggy will be full again.. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
stripeyfox Posted 2 April 2017 Share Posted 2 April 2017 Well this has cheered me up no end, thanks Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
DANGEROUS TIGER Posted 2 April 2017 Share Posted 2 April 2017 On 01/04/2017 at 11:52, LcFc_Smiv said: Number 8 and number 12 are both already robbing t***s and I bet their increases won't go towards improving their poor attempt at customer services. What "Customer Services"? Shambolic! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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