{"id":2311,"date":"2022-04-19T11:06:52","date_gmt":"2022-04-19T10:06:52","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/agefriendlyhomes.ie\/?p=2311"},"modified":"2022-04-20T16:16:29","modified_gmt":"2022-04-20T15:16:29","slug":"government-announces-further-measures-to-help-households-with-rising-cost-of-energy","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/agefriendlyhomes.ie\/ga\/government-announces-further-measures-to-help-households-with-rising-cost-of-energy\/","title":{"rendered":"Government announces further measures to help households with rising cost of energy"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p style=\"font-size:25px\">On 13th April, The government agreed to a number of new measures to help address the rising costs of energy.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p style=\"font-size:25px\">They include:<\/p>\n\n\n\n<ul class=\"has-black-color has-text-color wp-block-list\" style=\"font-size:25px\"><li>VAT on gas and electricity will be cut from <strong>13.5% to 9%<\/strong> until the end of October<\/li><li>Excise reductions on <strong>petrol, diesel and green diesel<\/strong> will also be extended to Budget Day<\/li><li>370,000 Fuel Allowance recipients will receive a<strong> \u20ac100 lump sum<\/strong><\/li><li>A further reduction in <strong>green diesel excise levy<\/strong><\/li><\/ul>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"has-black-color has-text-color\" style=\"font-size:25px\">These are in addition to the <strong>\u20ac2 billion worth of cost of living measures<\/strong> announced as part of Budget 2022<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"has-black-color has-text-color\" style=\"font-size:28px\">You can read <a href=\"https:\/\/www.gov.ie\/en\/press-release\/0a129-government-announces-further-measures-to-help-households-with-rising-cost-of-energy\/\" rel=\"noopener\">the full article by clicking here<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>On 13th April, The government agreed to a number of new measures to help address the rising costs of energy. They include: VAT on gas and electricity will be cut &hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":9998,"featured_media":2315,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"inline_featured_image":false,"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"_EventAllDay":false,"_EventTimezone":"","_EventStartDate":"","_EventEndDate":"","_EventStartDateUTC":"","_EventEndDateUTC":"","_EventShowMap":false,"_EventShowMapLink":false,"_EventURL":"","_EventCost":"","_EventCostDescription":"","_EventCurrencySymbol":"","_EventCurrencyCode":"","_EventCurrencyPosition":"","_EventDateTimeSeparator":"","_EventTimeRangeSeparator":"","_EventOrganizerID":[],"_EventVenueID":[],"_OrganizerEmail":"","_OrganizerPhone":"","_OrganizerWebsite":"","_VenueAddress":"","_VenueCity":"","_VenueCountry":"","_VenueProvince":"","_VenueState":"","_VenueZip":"","_VenuePhone":"","_VenueURL":"","_VenueStateProvince":"","_VenueLat":"","_VenueLng":"","_VenueShowMap":false,"_VenueShowMapLink":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"class_list":["post-2311","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-general-news"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/agefriendlyhomes.ie\/ga\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2311","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/agefriendlyhomes.ie\/ga\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/agefriendlyhomes.ie\/ga\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/agefriendlyhomes.ie\/ga\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/9998"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/agefriendlyhomes.ie\/ga\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2311"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/agefriendlyhomes.ie\/ga\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2311\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2313,"href":"https:\/\/agefriendlyhomes.ie\/ga\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2311\/revisions\/2313"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/agefriendlyhomes.ie\/ga\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/2315"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/agefriendlyhomes.ie\/ga\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2311"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/agefriendlyhomes.ie\/ga\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2311"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}