Energy suppliers should stop forcing vulnerable households on to prepayment meters, the government has said.
Increasing numbers of people are being left without heat or light when they are unable to afford meter top-ups. He called for the "urgent publication" of energy suppliers' recent investigation into vulnerable customers, and the release of data on applications suppliers had made to forcibly install meters.
Ms Ridson, from Hampshire, had been in hospital recovering from a fall when her energy firm forced the switch to a prepayment account - even though her daughter-in-law warned her supplier that Audrey would struggle to top up her meter.Audrey Risdon said her situation was not resolved until Citizens Advice became involved
He added: "I am deeply concerned to see reports of customers being switched to prepayment meters against their will, with some disconnected from supply - and quite literally left in the dark."
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So now they crackdown after year’s elections 🤔
They'll just force them to have smart meters then
Those are the same companies which are failing to invest in renewable energy
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Britishers beastly people with their beastly religion. I hhate them! They breed like Rabbits! Does these sentence structures seem familiar
British people have brought a bad name on Christian religioin. The employees should hange themselves for being british and killing people in Jalianwallah Bagh Massacre
stevo5june What about all the other functions they tried not to tell us about? Like rapid usage reading to predict usage and maybe restriction. That was denied, but what else is of value to a Smart Grid?
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I understand a magistrate in a single sitting can authorise hundreds of meters to be forced on people without individual checks. But now it looks bad for the government, the government say something. Not when courts were allowed to do this.
They should make it so that if you use prepayment your not paying more.
Stop 🛑 the mafia cartel energy companies holding the public hostage by taking their money on credit against their future bills they’re holding billions of pounds in cash of the publics money earning huge amounts of interest
10.64p per KwH for gas ? How old is that stock image
How thick do you have to be to believe this? Stuff like this is 100% organised between govt and their Tory donors. They might be telling them to stop now, but it's all been hand in hand so far, it's not a con the govt have suddenly noticed.
Just a plot to get everyone on a digital meter..
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