A FAMILY who live in a three-bed semi have expressed their confusion over what is a "typical household" as they are set to pay well over the odds of £2,500 for their energy bills. 

The Bournemouth family of three have been left feeling "misled" by Liz Truss's energy price guarantee as they are faced with a bill more than £3,000. 

Liz Truss has promised the energy price guarantee, which limits the unit price paid for electricity and gas, the annual bill for a typical household in England, Scotland and Wales will be held to around £2,500 for the next two years from October 1.

The family is calling for Liz Truss to correct her comment that typical households will not have to pay more than £2,500 for their energy bills as they discover it is "simply not true."

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The £2,500 relates to an average bill for a typical household based on 2019 consumption figures.

Claire Hathaway-Jennings, who lives with her child and husband believes that Liz Truss's price promise is "confusing" and "unfair."

Claire said: "I don't understand what an average household is because we are only two adults and one child in a three-bed semi.

"I think it's unfair how they have presented this price cap campaign in a deliberately confusing way so that people believe they are being promised something but this is simply not true for most people.

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"We have all been changing our habits, turning off lights, switching things off and I have even been showering at the gym recently instead of at home to save money, so it's not like we are using a load of energy."

The family are concerned for people who have also misunderstood the promise and are faced with a similar bill that they cannot afford to pay. 

Claire added: "The Tories have spun this so that it really doesn't benefit anyone because the people who are eligible for the limit should never even be paying anywhere near that anyway. 

"I just hope that there aren't lots of other people out there who didn't understand this the same way I didn't and now have to pay a bill that they hadn't prepared for."

Last week, the prime minister apologised for not being “more specific” following her statements that “nobody” will pay more than £2,500 for their annual energy bill.

The Prime Minister was urged to publicly correct her comments made during a round of radio interviews, amid concerns they could lead listeners to believe they would pay a maximum of £2,500 regardless of how much energy they used.

The average annual household energy bill rose from £1,971 to a frozen £2,500 from October 1 under the Government’s recently announced energy price guarantee.

But the plan only caps the cost per unit that households pay, with actual bills still determined by how much energy is consumed.