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The SFHA labels fuel poverty increases under new definition “deeply worrying”
The Scottish Federation of Housing Associations (SFHA) has urged the Holyrood government to fund its efforts to reduce the effects of fuel poverty.
The SFHA was responding to new proposed definitions of fuel poverty and extreme fuel poverty that are being tabled by the Scottish government.
These currently state that a household is in fuel poverty “if, in order to maintain a satisfactory heating regime, it would be required to spend more than 10% of its income on all household fuel use”.
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