PRICE rises due to come into effect on Friday will place new pressures on local families who might already be doing it tough.
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Healthcare costs and family payments, stamp duty, wages and power price hikes, will all be affected when a raft of new laws, regulations and fees come into effect on July 1.
The cost of some toll roads, council rates, and power are also set to rise in NSW.
Lifeline Central West crisis services manager Stephanie Robinson she said any increase had an impact.
"I think in the Central West we are even further disadvantaged because our electricity and gas costs are so much more expensive than our city counterparts," she said.
"It is a basic human right to be able to keep our families warm, and it is getting harder and harder.
"Our financial counsellors are seeing more and more people having increased difficulty in paying their utility bills.
"We also hear that people with private heath insurance are being forced to drop it."
Ms Robinson with a federal election looming it was hard to predict the true impact the July 1 increases would have on the local community.
Lifeline Central West chief executive officer Alex Ferguson said if costs were generally going up at a greater rate than income, people had less disposable income to pay their bills.
People on basic wages are barely making ends meet.
- Lifeline Central West's Alex Ferguson
"We know from our work that people on basic wages are barely making ends meet," he said.
In Bathurst, a price hike to dispose of rubbish at the waste management centre is one of the price rises set to come into play from July 1.
Charges to dump domestic waste will increase from $135 a tonne to $155 a tonne and green waste will rise from $115 per tonne to $135 per tonne.
And trucking operators like Bathurst's Graeme Burke will be left with no choice but to pass on an increase in motorway tolls to his customers.
Trucks using the M7 will be hit with an extra $1.74.
Mr Burke said all the costs that the business had absorbed for some time would have to be passed on eventually.
"Trying to do business in the eastern suburbs - Mascot, Botany and Alexandria - has become impossible with the traffic chaos," he said.
"We just go with the flow and pass the costs on. It's the cost of doing business in these areas," he said.
Driver's licence, vehicle registration and public transport fees are set to increase across the country from July 1, generally by around 1.9 per cent in line with inflation. In NSW, a five-year driver's licence will increase by $4 from $174 to $178.
AGL customers will pay an extra $3.30 a week for electricity, or around $170 a year. Energy Australia and Origin are both expected to hike up their prices, too. Gas bills are predicted to rise between $2 and $7 a year.
Council rates are expected to rise by at least 1.8 per cent.