Even if the government cuts the tops off, the peaking energy prices affect an increasingly broader group. Also middle class people with average wages but little margin are now balancing on the edge for the first time in their lives, such as Carl (44), a PCSW foreman with a net income of 1,900 euros. “I still have 2.76 euros left this month, because I had to pay insurance.”
Katrien De Meyer
19-03-22, 06:00
Carl (44) is a single father with two children in co-parenting. 800 euros of his salary goes to his home loan. That turns out to be too heavy to handle the current spike in energy prices. “In my job I see every day how people end up in poverty. And now it happens to me too. I can’t control it anymore.”
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