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What do you cut when there’s nothing

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left to cut?

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The food shop?

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The heating?

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The cost of living doesn’t squeeze everyone

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equally.

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For the lowest-income households, food, housing and

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energy take 41 percent of spending.

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For the highest-income households?

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20 percent.

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A smaller budget, with a bigger share

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tied up in the basics.

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And look at the recent shock.

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From 2021 to 2025, typical full-time pay

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rose about 26 percent.

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Food prices rose 36 percent.

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Gas prices, 74 percent.

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Those are national comparisons.

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Your own bills depend on where and

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how you live.

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In a survey of lower-income households, 58

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percent said they heated their homes less

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than they needed.

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51 percent cut food spending because of

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rising costs.

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These are separate answers.

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But behind them are difficult choices.

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UK Facts looks beyond the averages.

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See who is struggling, why it’s happening,

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and what could change.

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Come visit www.uk-statpack.co.uk to find out more.