Ofgem records big rise in households with prepayment meters being cut off | Energy bills | The Guardian
https://www.theguardian.com/money/2023/jul/07/ofgem-records-big-rise-in-households-with-prepayment-meters-being-cut-off

#Ofgem
#PrepayMeters
#CutOff
#SelfDisconnections
#PPM
#PriceCap
#EnergyBills
#Energy
#GovSupportRemoved

Pensioner forced to ration electricity for a year after receiving £13,000 bill in error | Energy bills | The Guardian
https://www.theguardian.com/money/2023/jul/31/pensioner-ration-electricity-13000-bill-error-eon

#EOn
#Electricity
#Bills
#EnergyBills
#Energy
#PrepayMeters
#ForcedToPayForSomeoneElsesDebt
#EnergySuppliers

Energy voucher: Prepayment meter households urged to claim support before deadline | The Independent
https://www.independent.co.uk/news/uk/home-news/energy-bills-voucher-scheme-2023-b2348754.html

#PrepayMeters
#EnergyVoucherDay
#EnergyVouchers
#Vouchers
#FuelPoverty
#CostOfLivingCrisis
#CostOfSurvivingCrisis
#CostOfGreedCrisis

Energy voucher: Prepayment meter households urged to claim support before deadline | The Independent
https://www.independent.co.uk/news/uk/home-news/energy-bills-voucher-scheme-2023-b2348754.html

#PrepayMeters
#Vouchers
#EnergyVouchers
#EnergyVoucherDay
#Deadline

Pre-payment meter customers are £1bn in debt, campaigners say | Morning Star
#PrepayMeters
#Debt
#FuelPoverty
#FuelPovertyAction
#ForceFit
#Ofgem
#NationalPensionersConvention
#Energy
#EnergyFirms
https://morningstaronline.co.uk/article/w/pre-payment-meter-customers-are-ps1bn-debt-campaigners-say

Chancellor Jeremy Hunt to end prepayment penalties for over four million households | The Independent
Also Universal Credit sanctions scheme to be 'tightened'.
#Hunt
#PrepayMeters
#PrepaymentPremium
#UniversalCredit
#Sanctions
#WCA
#CarersOfChildren
https://www.independent.co.uk/news/uk/home-news/jeremy-hunt-budget-prepayment-energy-bills-b2298926.html

I had missed that #Ofgem's recent ban on the forcible installation of #prepaymeters was only a temporary measure.... come April, we're be back to vulnerable people having their homes broken into to fit meters that offer only the prospect of being cut off from vital #energy... sometimes the callousness of #business, makes my gasp....
#headinmyhands

British Gas debt agents 'broke into woman's home' with dad on his deathbed - Mirror Online
#PrePayMeters
#FittersBreakingIn
#ForceFit https://www.mirror.co.uk/news/uk-news/british-gas-debt-agents-broke-29195506
>Elizabeth Garrett says she returned from hospital to find British Gas subcontractors had taken her door off its hinges - and workers even made themselves a cup of tea as they force-fitted the meter

Gordon Brown demands Ofgem boss Jonathan Brearley resigns over prepay energy meter scandal | The Independent
#Brown
#Ofgem
#Bearley
#PrepayMeters
#PrepaymentMeters

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

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

On the issue of #prepaymentmeter installation by force in the UK, Radio 4 had an #EnergyIndustry guy on just now, and he was asked if he thought it possible energy bosses didn't know companies were invading people's homes to install #prepaymeters.

Part of me hopes they knew, because otherwise they're not very good bosses.

The greater part of me hopes they didn't, because otherwise they're not very good people.

One might *almost* suspect that business is intrinsically immoral.

The 'horror' expressed by #GrantShapps & the CEO of #Centrica, that people operating on their behalf are breaking into homes to install #prepaymeters is just yet more declaratory politics...

Of course they knew this was happening, but no doubt it was so masked in business gobbledygook that they were able to practice plausible deniability until a reporter (from the Times) went undercover & joined a crew doing the work...

There is no defence foe their claimed 'ignorance' of what was being done!

Scottish Power plans to install a prepayment meter – but we are not customers | Consumer affairs | The Guardian
#PrepayMeters
#ScottishPower
It seems our gas account was erroneously switched by a neighbour

https://www.theguardian.com/money/2023/jan/17/scottish-power-install-prepayment-meter-customers-gas-account

Another scandal is gathering pace:

the 'self-disconnection' of those people already transferred to #prepaymeters due to problems paying their #energy bills.

Therefore not only do vulnerable people pay higher tariffs & have difficulty accessing Govt. #energycrisis support, the energy firms have found a way round their statuary obligations limiting the ability to cut-off people in financial trouble from life-sustaining energy supplies!

#Ofgem must act, fast!

https://www.theguardian.com/business/nils-pratley-on-finance/2023/jan/16/has-ofgem-grasped-the-scale-of-disconnection-of-people-on-prepayment-energy-meters