RT @julian_vaughan_
As someone who campaigns for a fair deal for prepayment meter customers, I'm proud to have signed the pledge to end fuel poverty. Read my latest blog on PPMs... (1/2) @endfuelpoverty
#endfuelpoverty

Hearing a very clear warning at today’s #endfuelpoverty Coalition meeting that #energy retailers will attempt to fix vulnerable households on expensive fixed tariffs over the next 9-12 months.

This will maximise their profits, but harm households in the long run.

Candidates for the local elections (and sitting councillors) can now pledge to help #EndFuelPoverty by signing our #LocalElections pledge.
https://www.endfuelpoverty.org.uk/council-candidates-urged-to-help-end-fuel-poverty/

RT @GalvinLucy
With today’s energy costs, prepay meters prey on the vulnerable. Working with @endfuelpoverty and @CAB_Norfolk to #BanForcedPPMs and #EndFuelPoverty @NorwichCC https://twitter.com/norwichgreens/status/1619629959831777280

I've already posted one of these stories today but I've just seen the second one, and now I'm fucking furious (about another thing).
1. How the energy crisis affects the energy firms
https://www.theguardian.com/business/2023/jan/12/british-gas-owner-forecasts-eightfold-rise-in-earnings-amid-soaring-gas-prices
2. How the energy crisis affects the rest of us
https://www.theguardian.com/money/2023/jan/11/call-to-end-forced-installation-of-uk-prepayment-meters-after-millions-suffer-without-power
#EndFuelPoverty #CostOfLivingCrisis #UKPolitics #EnoughIsEnough #FuckTheTories

@endfuelpoverty There's an article about this in the Guardian today. Extract:
"Rhiannon, a single parent with a baby who suffers from depression, fell behind on her payments after she separated with her partner. Her landlord allowed her supplier access to fit a prepayment meter. She has resorted to warming baby milk at her GP’s surgery and staying warm in her dad’s car."
https://www.theguardian.com/money/2023/jan/11/call-to-end-forced-installation-of-uk-prepayment-meters-after-millions-suffer-without-power
#EndFuelPoverty #UKPolitics #CostOfLivingCrisis #ToryGreed #EnoughIsEnough

Forced pre-payment meter transfer – End Fuel Poverty Coalition
#ForcedPPMs
#EndFuelPoverty
#EnergyDisconnection
#FuelDisconnection

Installation of pre-payment meters (PPMs) increasingly represents disconnection by the backdoor, and transfer of a smart meter to a PPM setting is likely to present an underhand way of disconnecting people in fuel poverty. If

https://www.endfuelpoverty.org.uk/about-fuel-poverty/forced-pre-payment-meter-transfer/

Immediate ban needed on forced pre-payment meter transfers – End Fuel Poverty Coalition
#BanForcedPPMs
#PPMs
#EndFuelPoverty

The devastating impact of forced transfer of households onto more expensive Pre-Payment Meters (PPMs) has led the End Fuel Poverty Coalition to call for an immediate ban on their imposition. Energy firms’ licence conditions protect

https://www.endfuelpoverty.org.uk/immediate-ban-needed-on-forced-pre-payment-meters/

RT @NPCUK
For many pensioners “Its not a life, its an existence”

Talking about the cost of living crisis and rocketing fuel bills

#WarmThisWinter #FuelPoverty #PensionerPoverty #EndFuelPoverty

RT @InsulateLove@twitter.com

Our supporters have been found NOT GUILTY after our campaign of #civilresistance on the #M25 last year.

Judges, magistrates and ordinary people, like you, GET IT. WE MUST #INSULATEBRITAIN to #EndFuelPoverty

Join us everyday 11AM @ DOWNING STREET to make it happen @JustStop_Oil@twitter.com

🐦🔗: https://twitter.com/InsulateLove/status/1578414863109435393