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Home > Resources > Fuel Poverty Toolkit > 5. Tackling Fuel Poverty

5. Tackling Fuel Poverty

Taking action to reduce fuel poverty can help to improve people’s lives whilst helping to reduce demands on public spending. People in fuel poverty often face very difficult trade-offs between meeting their fuel bills, spending on other essentials such as food and falling into debt, all of which can exacerbate physical and mental health problems.

5.1 A Strategic Approach to Tackling Fuel Poverty

Eight areas to address and tackle fuel poverty

5.2 Energy Efficiency

One of the most effective solutions to fuel poverty lie in energy efficiency improvements to the home

5.3 Energy Prices

Reducing the amount of money spent on bills is one way of helping to control the effect of fuel poverty.

5.4 Income maximisation and Low income

Low income is one of the main causes of fuel poverty. There are a number of areas that can explored when trying to reduce the impact of fuel poverty.

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