As the cost of living rises, Mary McQuillan, 71, says she is losing sleep over her financial worries.
An elderly woman has said she goes to a nearby Belfast shopping centre most days to keep warm due to the rising cost of living.
"Some nights I can't sleep much and I'm letting this get over me - I try not to but it's hard," she said."I go round there for heat. I would sit there people watching, pass time, to save electric and heating. It's terrible.Much of the focus across the UK on Friday is onwhich will mean a huge jump in electricity and home heating bills.
In crude terms, customers in Great Britain get rising wholesale costs passed onto them in two big lumps in the spring and the autumn.For example, on ThursdayIt means that customers in both Great Britain and Northern Ireland experience the pain of rising wholesale prices but each by a slightly different route.Peter McClenaghan, from the Consumer Council, expects the situation in Northern Ireland to get even worse.
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