{
  "id": 12556715,
  "title": "Chancellor plans major intervention to help poorer UK households with rising energy bills",
  "url": "https://urgent.news/2026/10/06/chancellor-plans-major-intervention-to-help-poorer-uk-households-with",
  "topic": "business",
  "section": "Business",
  "published": "2026-10-06T19:27:59.000Z",
  "source": {
    "name": "Guardian Business",
    "slug": "guardian-business",
    "url": "https://www.theguardian.com/money/2026/oct/06/chancellor-plans-major-intervention-to-help-poorer-uk-households-with-rising-energy-bills"
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  "original_language": "en",
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  "summary": "Exclusive: Officials working on further radical changes that would change how much energy companies could charge customers John Healey is planning a major intervention to cut energy bills for poorer households in this month’s budget, after ministers became alarmed at forecasts that show bills rising by hundreds of pounds in January. The chancellor is working on plans to spend more than £1bn to…",
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  "disclaimer": "Summaries, key points and the editor’s take are written by software from other outlets’ reporting and may contain errors — always check the linked original."
}