Middle-income families will also find it hard to cope with new energy cap in April, says thinktankThe number of households suffering from “fuel stress” – those spending at least 10% of their family budgets on energy bills – is set to treble to 6.3m ove…
Protecting vulnerable from £700 hike in energy bills means hard choices now | Nils Pratley
The options are unattractive but a massively expanded warm homes scheme gets the vote hereIt’s choose your poison time for a government that must know allowing low-income households to suffer the full blast of the scheduled rise in energy bills in Apri…
PMQs: Boris Johnson and Angela Rayner clash over energy prices and inflation
Prime minister talks up rising employment and makes false claims over inflationBoris Johnson and Angela Rayner have clashed over energy prices and the wider cost of living in the first prime minister’s questions of the year, during which Johnson made a…
If you’ve resolved to improve your finances for the new year …
We asked a range of experts to set out a strategy to tackle all the most common money problemsIt’s a new year and many of us are looking for a fresh start after a very difficult 2021. We’ve asked a group of experts for their advice on how to tackle som…
Thames Water billed us £1,000 for a mystery leak
We used to pay £400 but we suspect the cause is a recently installed smart meterWe are being pursued by Thames Water over a £1,000 bill which it alleges has accrued in six months. We suspect its recently installed smart meter is at fault, but three rec…
E.ON and Octopus are less than smart over my meter mix-up
I switched to Octopus, but E.ON is still charging me for gasI moved house at the end of March and applied to transfer our new electricity and gas accounts to our old supplier, Octopus.While the electricity switch was fine, moving the gas account has sl…
Energy crisis: Treasury reprimands Kwarteng after help for firms claim
Source close to Rishi Sunak accuses business secretary of ‘making up’ talks with chancellor about supportThe Treasury has issued an extraordinary reprimand to the business secretary, Kwasi Kwarteng, after he suggested he was consulting the chancellor, …
Energy crisis: Tory MPs join Labour in urging support for heavy industry
Households expected to be hit by massive bills in spring after 250% rise in gas prices since JanuaryInstant bill increases for millions of customers will be held back by maintaining the energy price cap, the business secretary has said, as he resists a…
UK faces ‘grim winter’ with households already paying £442 extra in bills
Analysts warn cost of living crisis is gathering pace amid fast rises in petrol, food and energy billsWatch out for hidden ‘shrinkflation’ price hikes, analysts warnRising inflation ‘could trigger global sell-off that would harm UK’Households face a “p…
Omni Energy switched unprofitable customers without express consent
Firm is struggling financially with record high gas prices and removed customers who used the most energyA struggling household energy supplier switched thousands of unprofitable customers to rival companies without their express consent, in an apparen…