According to new data, energy costs will account for up to 10% of the typical pay beginning in April.

The average monthly energy cost would increase to £250, more than double the amount workers paid a year ago.

The union organisation urged the government to establish a public energy business to reduce energy costs, claiming that low-income workers were the hardest hurt. When the price ceiling is raised in April, full-time minimum wage workers’ monthly expenses will account for 16% of their earnings, up from 8% in March 2022, as stated by the TUC.

It reiterated its request for a more significant windfall tax on large oil and gas firms and asked ministers to end “Britain’s living standards nightmare.”

According to the TUC, the energy market in the UK has become a “racket,” with oil and gas companies reaping billions in profits while families struggle to heat their homes.

Paul Nowak, general secretary of the TUC, stated: “The government must reverse the impending increase in home energy prices in the budget next month. Families throughout the UK are being driven to the edge by sky-high expenditures.

This necessitates levying a higher windfall tax on greedy oil and gas suppliers and increasing wages throughout the economy.

“British workers are slated for two decades of reduced wages. This has left countless individuals vulnerable to escalating rates.” “Unless we increase wages, the working class will continue to lurch from crisis to crisis. “Our energy market has turned into a scam. It is time to return corporations to public ownership.”

“Privatisation has been a tragedy for struggling families. The only true winners have been shareholders who have made tens of millions of pounds in dividends.”

The TUC urges the government to establish a public energy corporation to reduce costs.

Ed Miliband, a Labour member of parliament and shadow climate minister, stated, “In a couple of weeks, Rishi Sunak intends to increase the energy price cap to £3,000. “At the same time, oil and gas conglomerates reap war profits, while Rishi Sunak’s Conservatives refuse to adopt a real windfall tax that would require them to pay their fair part.”

He stated that Labour would implement an “appropriate windfall tax to prevent April price increases.”