{"id":2569,"date":"2026-04-01T18:51:58","date_gmt":"2026-04-01T18:51:58","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/videos\/2569\/"},"modified":"2026-04-01T18:51:58","modified_gmt":"2026-04-01T18:51:58","slug":"how-can-you-avoid-the-april-price-rises","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/videos\/2569\/","title":{"rendered":"How can you avoid the April price rises?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" title = \"How can you avoid the April price rises?\"   width=\"580\" height=\"385\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/tk-foGecSPc\" frameborder=\"0\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><br \/>\n<br \/>\nHow can you avoid the April price rises?<br \/>\n<br \/>\nHouseholds are facing a host of increases in their bills as what is being dubbed yet another \u201cawful April\u201d takes effect.<\/p>\n<p>While energy bills are falling \u2013 for the time being at least \u2013 charities have warned that hikes to council tax, water, broadband and mobile phone costs are threatening to stretch many households to breaking point.<\/p>\n<p>A number of changes to household bills previously announced by the government come into effect on April 1. So what is changing, and what help is available for those struggling to pay?<\/p>\n<p>\u2022 Subscribe to ITV News on YouTube: http:\/\/bit.ly\/2lOHmNj<br \/>\n\u2022 Get breaking news and more stories at http:\/\/www.itv.com\/news<\/p>\n<p>Follow ITV News on TikTok https:\/\/www.tiktok.com\/@itvnews?lang=en<br \/>\nFollow ITV News on Instagram: https:\/\/www.instagram.com\/itvnews\/<br \/>\nFollow ITV News on Facebook: https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/itvnews\/<br \/>\nFollow ITV News on X: https:\/\/twitter.com\/itvnews<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"How can you avoid the April price rises? Households are facing a host of increases in their bills&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":2570,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[12],"tags":[5726,5713,5724,5714,5718,1204,4551,5716,5249,5721,2590,5728,5727,5715,5729,5731,380,379,5725,5719,5732,5720,2601,5722,5723,5730,5717],"class_list":{"0":"post-2569","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-itv-news","8":"tag-april-bills","9":"tag-awful-april","10":"tag-bill-increases","11":"tag-bills-rise","12":"tag-broadband-costs","13":"tag-cost-of-living","14":"tag-cost-of-living-crisis","15":"tag-council-tax","16":"tag-energy-bills","17":"tag-energy-price-cap","18":"tag-energy-prices-uk","19":"tag-government-support","20":"tag-help-with-bills","21":"tag-household-bills","22":"tag-household-finances","23":"tag-inflation-uk","24":"tag-itv","25":"tag-itv-news","26":"tag-living-costs-uk","27":"tag-mobile-phone-bills","28":"tag-money-advice","29":"tag-ofgem","30":"tag-uk-economy","31":"tag-uk-energy","32":"tag-uk-households","33":"tag-utilities-uk","34":"tag-water-bills"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/pubeurope.com\/@videos\/116330995569819451","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/videos\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2569","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/videos\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/videos\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/videos\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/videos\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2569"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/videos\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2569\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/videos\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/2570"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/videos\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2569"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/videos\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2569"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/videos\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2569"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}