Chancellor George Osborne today announced that employers will no longer have to pay national insurance contributions (NIC) on apprentices aged 24 and under.
The average household in Massachusetts uses about 630 kilowatts of electricity a month, according to the most recent US government data. With National Gridâs new winter rate of 24.24 cents per kilowatt-hour, a typical monthly bill would run slightly more than $150. A National Grid spokesman, Jake Navarro, said that two-thirds of the cost comes from the purchase of electricity from power plants, compared to just over half last winter.
Heating oil in Massachusetts tumbled to an average price of $2.49 a gallon in late August, down more than 30 percent from the same period a year earlier and selling in some parts of the state at less than $2 a gallon, according to the state Department of Energy Resources.