THE number of people missing payments on essential household bills like energy, phone and water is as high as it was over the winter, according to consumer group Which?.

Household budgets have been under strain for more than a year.

Even though prices have fallen back slightly, around 2.4 million households missed at least one bill payment in the month to mid-July, Which? estimates.

Which? said 770,000 failed to make mortgage or rent payments.

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