: Fuel poverty update

Friday, February 10th, 2012

Stephen Dineen assesses the problem and plans to combat it. The level of fuel poverty in Northern Ireland has been revised downwards following a Department for Social Development-commissioned study. The University of Ulster study revised the 2009 figure of 44 per cent figure to 13 per cent (75,000 households), using a new method of calculation. Previously, the threshold was set at twice the median amount of household income that families in England spent on heating their homes in 1991 (10 per cent...

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