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Your pay, energy bills and savings: How the Budget affects you

Families facing cost-of-living pressures are being offered some help, or "breathing space" as Chancellor John Healey is calling it.

The help comes as prices are rising faster than expected with annual energy bills in particular likely to increase by around £300 or more in January.

If you are living in a home in council tax bands A to D in England, you will receive a one-off £100 "Household Energy Payment" from January, funded by extra tax on banks.

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