Social housing tenants fear poverty as energy bills rise

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They are unable to save money by reducing their individual energy use as they are on a heat network.

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Social care charity Brunelcare warned the situation facing residents this winter was the worst in recent history. The increases are lower than the 400% forecast before the government introduced a relief scheme, but Mr Boden warned bills would still be crippling for some.Richard Boden is trying to help residents at Emmanuel Court access financial support for their bills"There's been lots of news about the average person, but nothing has been said about us at all and we are in a worse situation.

She said there was real concern about what would happen once the relief schemes came to an end in March. A spokeswoman for the Department for Business, Energy and Industrial Strategy said: "People who use heat networks will receive help with their heating and hot water bills through the Energy Bill Relief Scheme.

 

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Service charges for communal heating, corridors etc, have risen by over 200%, nothing I can do about it. I can try to economise within my own flat but all the heating for the communal areas are included in the service charges that I must pay.

Keep Slava Ukraining.

Just don't pay...The bad PR for the companies would not be good.

Oh BBC....good of you to catch up

Sheltered housing not social housing.. Your headline is wrong bbc..

Never mind Third Country Britain! 27 EU Members only ‚officially‘ Ratified Brexit 19 months ago, so it’s only just begun folks – Hooray!

Why specifically social housing tenants. Being in social housing (the old Council House) doesn't mean you are poor. Can have people earning good money who live in them 🤔

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