Warning of rising fuel poverty this winter despite budget measures

The measures within Budget 2023 include €600 off electricity bills, in three payments, for all households in the State. File photo

The cost-of-living measures in Budget 2023 won’t be enough to combat the increase in the minimum essential standard of living, and more people could be pushed into poverty this winter, new analysis suggests.

Compiled by the Vincentian MESL Research Centre at St Vincent de Paul, it said that the cost of a socially acceptable minimum standard of living will increase by 10% over the full year to 2023 while there will be a “notable increase” in energy poverty next year.