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Cost of Living

All the latest news and articles covering the UK's Cost of Living as prices rise and a crisis takes hold, including updates on support and payments. Cost of Living refers to the amount of money needed to cover basic expenses, such as housing, food, energy bills, and healthcare.

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Man looking at laptop in kitchen

I desperately need a pay rise but I'm too scared to ask for one

Channel: Money Money August 18, 2025 By Sarah Davidson
Cheers to beer.

The common pub habit that marks you out as a 'nightmare' punter

Channel: Food Food August 15, 2025 By Jessica Lindsay
A photograph of the creator of the Freddo bar hugging a Freddo mascot, and next to that a photograph of a Freddo bar.

Daughter of Freddo creator reveals he would 'roll in his grave' if he could see them now

Channel: UK UK August 9, 2025 By Amelia Clarke
Smart Meter readings

Up to 3,500,000 Brits to receive automatic £40 smart meter compensation payout

Channel: Money Money August 8, 2025 By Jessica Lindsay
Cheers to beer.

The 'nightmare' pub punter habit with a £125,000,000 industry cost

Channel: Food Food August 15, 2025 By Jessica Lindsay

The average amount Brits have in savings, according to their age

Channel: Money Money September 20, 2025 By Sophie-May Williams
Two brothers run along a riverside as their parents walk behind them.

Best summer holiday money-saving deals, from kids meals to discount days out

Channel: Money Money July 24, 2025 By Saffron Leggatt
Frugal woman Christine Lan with her husband. A frugal woman saves thousands a year by making her own skincare products and not buying toilet roll. Christine Lan, 40, has lived a frugal lifestyle ever since her parents moved to Canada from Mauritius in the 1970s. Since then, Christine has learned how to stretch her budget and avoid living frivolously. First, she started off by making her own skincare products out of kitchen oils - saving her hundreds of dollars a year. Photo released 23/07/2025

I'm a frugal mum of two — I ditched loo roll and cut my own hair

Channel: Money Money July 24, 2025 By Kristina Beanland
A shopping basket full of fruit and vegetables

Little-known way to get half-price food from Sainsbury’s, Asda, Morrisons and more 

Channel: Money Money July 23, 2025 By Courtney Pochin

Martin Lewis urges everyone born between these years to put £1 in bank account 'ASAP'

Channel: Money Money July 9, 2025 By Jessica Lindsay
The frontage and barnd logo of a Marks & Spencer Foodhall, taken in a local retail park on Wirral, UK on a sunny afternoon

M&S makes major change to rival supermarket competitor Tesco

Channel: Shopping Shopping July 11, 2025 By Rachel Moss
Empty wallet or purse in poor mans hands. Poverty, money shortage, bankrupt or financial crisis

Middlesbrough is the unexpected best-paid city in the UK — how does where you live rank?

Channel: Money Money July 8, 2025 By Jessica Lindsay
Samantha Priestly

I'm 53 and have never had savings - I thought that was normal

Channel: Money Money July 4, 2025 By Samantha Priestley
London. UK- 09.11.2024. A energy use and cost concept with a digital bill on a mobile phone, a smart energy meter and bank notes.; Shutterstock ID 2519830005; purchase_order: -; job: -; client: -; other: -

Energy price cap comes down with average household saving £11 a month

Channel: UK UK July 1, 2025 By Sarah Hooper
Frustrated concerned young couple calculating overspend budget, doing paperwork job at laptop, talking about financial problems, insurance, mortgage, fees, loan conditions, bankruptcy, economic inflation

My boyfriend wants to split bills 50/50 — I think he's being tight-fisted

Channel: Money Money June 24, 2025 By Sarah Davidson
Prime Minister Keir Starmer Makes Energy-Related Visits In Suffolk

Keir Starmer: Even in summer, I'm working to bring energy bills down

Channel: UK UK June 18, 2025 By Keir Starmer

Warm Home Discount expanded to millions more households across UK

Channel: Money Money June 19, 2025 By Craig Munro
Portraits of Iranian military generals and nuclear scientists, killed in Israel's June 13 attack are displayed above a road, as a plume of heavy smoke and fire rise from an oil refinery in southern Tehran, after it was hit in an overnight Israeli strike, on June 15, 2025. Iran fired a fresh barrage of missiles at Israel, state television announced early on June 15, as the rivals exchanged fire for a third day. (Photo by ATTA KENARE / AFP) (Photo by ATTA KENARE/AFP via Getty Images)

Three ways the Middle East crisis could make life more expensive in the UK

Channel: UK UK June 16, 2025 By Craig Munro
A Poundland shop front with a large logo.

Poundland is a lifeline - we'll miss it if it dies

Channel: UK UK June 16, 2025 By Amanda Akien
Four women walking away along a pedestrian lane with leading shadows and others sitting in shade on side in city business district

Major high street chain announces £25,000,000 revamp with at least 30 new stores

Channel: Shopping Shopping June 12, 2025 By Jessica Lindsay