One of the biggest energy firms has halted the forced installation of prepayment meters this Christmas 🔴 It comes after an investigation by i found debt collectors, working for energy companies, obtained nearly 500,000 warrants since the last lockdown
how her eight-month-old baby ended up in hospital with pneumonia after she says she spent days without gas because she was unable to top up her prepayment meter.
But he adds: “I understand your concerns that, in some cases, customers with PPMs [Prepayment meters] may self-disconnect, and we are acutely aware of this. “One of them surely will have the moral compass and backbone to lead the way and be the first to promise that nobody – none of its customers – will be subjected to self-disconnection simply because they are on a prepayment meter,” she said.
“Every single time these multi-billion pound companies push a prepayment meter onto someone who is struggling, they’re risking another customer facing the stark choice between feeding the meter and feeding their family. “With MPs and charities increasingly concerned for the wellbeing of people in cold damp homes, we cannot leave their safety to chance. The Government must act urgently to ban any further forced installations of prepayment meters either by court warrant or by smart meter.”
Corner shops on housing estates will often only take top up payments in cash so customers have to use local cash machines which charge a vending fee, making topping up even more expensive.
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