Millions see April bills rise as Citizens Advice warns single parents could be worst hit

A series of essential household bills are rising at the start of April, with warnings that single parents are among the hardest hit.
Water bills, energy prices and council tax are all going up in what has been dubbed “awful April”, although the minimum wage is also increasing.
The charity Citizens Advice said the finances of millions of people on the lowest incomes were “already stretched to breaking point”.
Many single parents in particular would struggle because a greater proportion of their money was taken up by essential spending, it said.
Laura Roan, a single mother of two daughters from Cardiff, said: “Without my own mum helping, there would be some days when I would not have any electric.”

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