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Confusion over price increases

Macrencephal
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in Water bills
By way of context, I live in the Thames Water area and have a water meter. I saw today's article about water bills going up next April. According to that article in the TW region bills are increasing in April 2025 by 25%.
This caused me to look back as I have only just paid my latest bill which was a big increase compared to last year so I was curious what this year's (i.e. April 2024) increase had been. According to an MSE article in February this year Thames Water bills were going up by 3% from April 2024.
I therefore checked my bill from earlier this year and, according to that, my fresh water charge rates increased by 7.80% (£1.7760 to £1.9145) and the waste water rates increased by 15.17% (£1.0017 to £1.1537) as from 1st April 2024.
I am therefore failing to understand why the rates I am paying have gone up way more than the February MSE article suggested they should have and am concerned that, in turn, the rates next April will go up by way more than the indicated 25%.
Any light that can be shed on this for me would be gratefully received.
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Macrencephal said:I therefore checked my bill from earlier this year and, according to that, my fresh water charge rates increased by 7.80% (£1.7760 to £1.9145) and the waste water rates increased by 15.17% (£1.0017 to £1.1537) as from 1st April 2024.I am therefore failing to understand why the rates I am paying have gone up way more than the February MSE article suggestedYour bill isn't solely made up of volumetric charges. There are fixed charges too.Regardless of what you might have read on MSE, Thames Water themselves said that bills would rise by an average of 12.3% in April 2024.https://news.sky.com/story/water-bills-to-rise-full-list-of-what-they-cost-now-and-how-much-theyre-going-up-by-across-england-and-wales-13276332Macrencephal said:... am concerned that, in turn, the rates next April will go up by way more than the indicated 25%.
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I can't link as the system won't let me but the latest article I am referring to is today's MSE article regarding the April 2025 price increases that states the 2025/6 increase over 2024/5 is 25% (average annual price from £436 to £544, an increase of £108).0
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I'm curious why the MSE article from February was so inaccurate then. I had thought it was a reliable source of information, but this is causing me to seriously doubt it.0
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Macrencephal said:I'm curious why the MSE article from February was so inaccurate then. I had thought it was a reliable source of information, but this is causing me to seriously doubt it.2
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I have the same query. We live in the Severn Trent water area and live in a band B property but don'y have a meter, our bill for 2024-25 was fresh water £332.96, and waste water etc £297.14 making a total of £630.10. According to the prices quoted on the recent MSE newsletter the average price for our area was around £400, are these average figures quoted for meters users ?0
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