Money blog: Big drop in energy bills on way in summer; government urges to let some Britons retire early | UK News petek, September 11, 2024 By Brad Young, Money team On Summer Scholes’s 16th birthday, two days after her mother died, the first thing on her mind was getting a job to keep a roof over her head. It was 2021, and alongside her studies in Margate, Summer said she worked for £4.62 an hour (the minimum wage for under-18s at the time) just so she and her aunt could pay rent and put food in the fridge. By the time she was 18, last September, she was spending the summer working 50 hours a week in hospitality for £375, while her colleagues aged 21 … Continue Reading