This is excellent news, although it is a complete scandal that households with prepayment meters - who are almost always poor households and face the lights literally going out the moment each prepaid card is spent - have had to pay more than the rest of us per unit for electricity.

#GoodNews #CostOfLivingCrisis #PrePaymentMeters #Electricity #Cost #Poverty

https://inews.co.uk/news/budget-2023-prepayment-energy-meter-customers-charged-same-direct-debits-2210330

RT @HelloCSE
📣For anyone on #PrepaymentMeters, you can now share your experience with Ofgem 👇 https://twitter.com/EndFuelPoverty/status/1634173214115917829

I know the inhumanity of prepayment meters. Forget reform – they should be abolished https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2023/feb/12/small-victory-prepayment-meters-abolish-them-energy-companies?
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#PrepaymentMeters
#CostOfLivingCrisis

RT @AnneMcLaughlin
In response to this I've today written to Grant Shapps. Why have @ofgem's MANY reviews on #PrePaymentMeters not lead to significant change? And if Grant Shapps really IS so surprised, he needs to talk to those of us who've been trying to tell him for months what's been going on. https://twitter.com/deankirby_/status/1623985730727936001

Gordon Brown has urged the head of energy regulator Ofgem to quit over the scandal that has seen hundreds of thousands of vulnerable Britons forced to switch to costly prepayment meters.

In an extraordinarily outspoken attack, the former prime minister says Jonathan Brearley should “consider his position” and accuses him of failing “dismally” to protect customers, some of whom have been pushed into the hands of loan sharks.

#OFGEM #EnergyCrisis #PrepaymentMeters

https://www.independent.co.uk/news/uk/politics/gordon-brown-ofgem-prepayment-meters-b2277381.html

Magistrates have been ordered to stop issuing warrants allowing energy firms to force fit prepayment meters in England and Wales.

One of the country’s most senior judges, Lord Justice Edis, has told the courts to halt the authorisation of warrants amid concerns over vulnerable customers.

#PrePaymentMeters #Energy #CostOfLiving #UKPolitics

https://www.theguardian.com/money/2023/feb/06/prepayment-meters-forced-installations-england-wales

RT @NorwichSeeker
#Norwich magistrates have been approving warrants for energy companies to forcibly install #prepaymentmeters but this week the city started fighting back against them @GalvinLucy @CAB_Norfolk. All the latest in this week's edition👇https://www.thenorwichseeker.co.uk/norwich-pre-payment-meters/

Ofgem orders energy firms to suspend force-fitting of prepayment meters | Morning Star
#Ofgem
#ForceFit
#PrepayMeters
#PrepaymentMeters
https://morningstaronline.co.uk/article/b/ofgem-orders-energy-firms-to-suspend-force-fitting-of-prepayment-meters

RT @CAPscot
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For months we have been calling for a ban on forcibly switching customers to prepayment meters (PPM). Today the energy regulator, @ofgem, has told firms to suspend this practice.

#LivingShouldntCostEverything
#PrepaymentMeters

#EdMilliband spoke well this morning about the scandal of #PrepaymentMeters, #Shell profits, windfall tax and investment in renewable, fossil fuels and more.
From about 2:10 https://www.bbc.co.uk/sounds/play/m001hnl9
#energy #energypoverty #climatechange

This is not a surprise and is a perfect example of why #PrepaymentMeters are state sanctioned abuse and should be banned outright.

"There are people who are not vulnerable who just don't pay" is not an excuse. If just one vulnerable person is forced onto a prepayment meter, that is one person too many. #BanPrepaymentMeters

https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/business-64491243

Sorry, British Gas, it's not remotely plausible that you didn't know this was going on.

You're suspending forced prepayment meter installations (note: suspending, not stopping) because you got caught, not because you're "horrified".

Do you seriously think we're all idiots?

And other energy suppliers: now would be a good time for you to stop before you get caught as well.

#BritishGas #CostOfLivingCrisis #Energy #PrepaymentMeters #Scumbaggery

https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/business-64491243

"The call for a social tariff comes amid widespread concern over low-income, elderly and disabled people being cut off from energy supplies after being forced on to prepayment meters they cannot afford to top up"
#EnergyCrisis #CostOfLiving #Poverty #SocialTariff #UKPolitics
#PrepaymentMeters #EndFielPovertyy

https://www.theguardian.com/money/2023/jan/17/uk-energy-bills-social-tariff-government-jeremy-hunt?CMP=GTUK_email

RT @GNEMPCO
📢 TOMORROW @AnneMcLaughlin will present a petition to Parliament on #prepayment meters, urging the UK Govt to ban so called 'self-disconnection'

📆Tue 17th Jan
📺https://www.parliamentlive.tv/Guide
➡️https://whatson.parliament.uk/commons/2023-01-17/

#prepaymentmeters | #energy | #EnergyCrisis

RT @csljohnkirby
Former magistrates warn of prepayment meter warrants 'injustice' https://inews.co.uk/news/winter-prepayment-meter-warrants-fuel-poverty-magistrates-2015481?ito=twitter_share_article-top Fantastic article re #prepaymentmeters #warrants @endfuelpoverty

Imagine pain so debilitating it “feels like your bones are being crushed on the inside every time you try to move or walk”. One misstep could jerk your hip from its socket... Arthritis locks up your joints. Imagine taking a warm shower for a short moment of relief, only to step out into the cold you’ve been living in for days on end, all because you can’t afford to top up your gas prepayment meter.
#EnergyCrisis #CostOfLiving #Austerity #ToryBritain #PrepaymentMeters

https://www.thebureauinvestigates.com/stories/2022-12-16/thousands-of-vulnerable-people-cut-off-from-gas-and-electricity-for-days-at-a-time

RT @AnneMcLaughlin@twitter.com

Huge thanks to @RachaelMaskell@twitter.com for moving my bill outlawing so called self disconnection of #prepaymentmeters yesterday, ensuring it doesnt die. Disappointed to hear the government object to it. Do they really want terminally ill people & pensioners to be cut off for £10 of debt?

🐦🔗: https://twitter.com/AnneMcLaughlin/status/1601595624637763585

"As the cold weather really starts to kick in... and I head to the shop to do my top up, I can’t help but think of all those who simply can’t afford to do the same."

A thoughtful and moving blog about life on #PrepaymentMeters by Charis Scott at @CAPscot

https://capuk.org/news-and-blog/life-on-a-prepayment-meter