Millions of energy customers will be hit with a price hike today, as Eon becomes the last of the big six firms to wallop its customers with a jump in their bills.
Energy deals promising savings and free energy often leave consumers out of pocket, despite what their ads claim, an investigation by consumer group Which? has found.
Households that switched to a cheap, fixed energy tariff before the big six suppliers hiked prices this winter will have saved serious cash, research shows.
Inflation fell by 0.2 percentage points in November as transport costs and mortgage interest payments went down, the Office of National Statistics says.