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According to BBC - "Household energy bills to be cut - OBR report"

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  • EssexHebridean
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    There was something mentioned in Martin's summary tweets yesterday about the ECO scheme being discontinued. 
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  • wrf12345
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    Bad English from our lovely Chancellor, she said she would stop ECO - meaning she would transfer the costs to general tax and not apply it to the energy bill, she did clear it up later... she also almost said she was going to stop pensions for overseas Brits but only meant NI contributions. 
  • Scot_39
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    So bills reducing by £12.50 a month on average starting from April?
    Probably just not going up as quickly.

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    Hopefully levies being moved to taz mainly on electric as ML clip.
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