Plans to hit consumers with higher electricity and gas bills to help energy companies with current and future unpaid bills have been scrapped after a campaign by Debt Justice (formerly Jubilee Debt Campaign).
£2.3 billion of household energy debt has built up during the cost of living crisis, some of which is unlikely to ever be paid back.
When 2,000 Debt Justice supporters told an Ofgem consultation it should be the companies that have profited in this crisis who bear the burden, not ordinary people, the regulator backed off.
Debt Justice have a petition calling for consumer energy debts to be written off completely: www.tinyurl.com/peacenews4096
Topics: Energy & fossil fuels, cost of living