A disabled woman says she is surviving on pasties and sandwiches as she faces a £5,000 energy bill. Anastasia Tempest relies on her electric wheelchair to do basic everyday tasks that others "take for granted".
“I have an electronic bed as well which helps me to transfer from the bed to my chair more easily, so I need to have electricity on all the time.” The electric wheelchair, which she got five weeks ago, was sourced through a GoFundMe as she “wasn’t in a position” to buy it herself. “They could increase benefits, universal credit, employment and support allowance could be increased. It doesn’t go very far at all.”
Her money woes have been made worse as she has been burgled twice this year, on February 5 and May 11. Items including £300 were stolen, which left Ms Tempest “devastated” and having to set up another GoFundMe. “I don’t have that money, period. I’m sitting here just now with £60 that’s going to have to do me and my son, who is 23.”
She said the Government needs to “take a handle on the energy companies” and that its advice is not enough to curb the effect the rising cost of living is having on people. “I think someone who is making policy needs to go and live with someone with the least for at least two months to see what the reality is,” she said.
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