We’ll have to earn hundreds more a month
IMOGEN and Duncan Tinkler have already seen their energy bills rise by £100 a month.
And now they are expecting a raft of other bills to increase – putting pressure on them to earn more.
The couple, who have a fouryear-old daughter, Xanthe, and newborn Athene, run a small food business. They employ two staff meaning they will have to pay higher national insurance contributions on their wages from April.
Mrs Tinkler, 39, from Whitstable, Kent, said: ‘We have yet to sit down and work it all out but it looks like we’ll need to earn an extra £500 a month to make up for our increased costs.’