The call for targeted financial support by next year has the backing of a coalition of consumer and energy bodies including Martin Lewis and Energy UK
Consumer groups have called for an energy social tariff in the form of cash payments for the poorest households ahead of what they warn could be a decade of high bills. Citizens Advice said payments of up to £1,500 are now an "essential" long-term solution for millions of fuel-poor households over the coming years.
Currently, households are spending more than twice as much on energy compared with 18 months ago, regardless of whether the UK Government's Energy Price Guarantee remains at £2,500. The charity warned energy prices are not expected to return to pre-pandemic levels for the next decade. He continued: “We know that the soaring cost of living bites harder for households on lower incomes who spend a higher proportion of their income on essentials such as energy and food.
"If I, as a wealthy, financially educated person choose not to switch, that's my problem. If a struggling low-income 90-year-old grandmother with onset dementia doesn't switch - that's all our problem. A social tariff looks to protect those who need it."
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