fuel poverty usually relates to a household that needs to spend more than 10% of its income on fuel for cooking and heating.
The inability to afford adequate heating. A standard definition is if a household spends more than 10% of its income to achieve an adequate heating regime.
A household is defined to be fuel poor if more than 10% of its income needs to be spent to achieve a satisfactory indoor heating regime, after including other energy services such as cooking and lighting.
Being unable to afford adequate levels of heating. This is one of a number of indicators of deprivation used to define consistent poverty.
The Governmentâ€(tm)s definition of a household in fuel poverty is one in which more than 10% of income needs to be spent in order to achieve a satisfactory level of heating.
A household is said to be in fuel poverty if more than 10% of its gross income needs to be spent to maintain satisfactory heating levels.
Where a combination of poor housing conditions and low income mean that the household cannot afford sufficient warmth for health and comfort. The widely accepted definition of fuel poverty is where a household needs to spend 10% or more of income to meet fuel costs. G - I
The common definition of a fuel poor household is one needing to spend in excess of 10% of household income to achieve a satisfactory heating regime (21°C in the living room and 18°C in the other occupied rooms).
The Scottish Executive considers a household to be in fuel poverty if, in order to keep the home sufficiently heated, it would have to spend more than 10 percent of its income (including housing benefit or income support for mortgage interest) on all household fuel use.
A fuel poor household is one which cannot afford to keep adequately warm at reasonable cost.