Are you, or someone you look after, having difficulty paying energy bills? If you are, Citizens Advice may be able to help with advice about your energy issues. Anyone can ask for help, but we would particularly like to speak to you if you fall into the following groups: Those who are: Spending more than […]
Nationally, Citizens Advice found that 48% of those who were helped with energy problems were disabled or had a long-term health problem. In January this year we promoted the Energy Best Deal Extra Project and we helped people on low incomes or benefits, those with disabilities or long term illnesses, pensioners and others with dependent […]
Winter can be cold and dark. Are you having difficulty affording to heat your home this winter? At Citizens Advice we often see clients who do. Sometimes people can’t pay their gas and electricity bills and they get into arrears. If these arrears are not paid, the energy supplier may pass the debt on to […]
When the Dalai Lama said ‘Conversion is not my intention […] You may develop some kind of confusion or difficulties’ he was talking about people changing their religion not their energy supplier. The government is keen for us all to overcome confusion and become expert energy shoppers and there are certainly financial benefits available to […]
It has been said that competition brings out the best in products and the worst in people. One of the main reasons behind the privatisation of energy companies was that it would supposedly lead to improved quality and lower prices as a result of competition. Energy Companies will only compete if they know that customers […]
Citizens Advice has been asked by the Department for Energy and Climate Change to lead Big Energy Savings Week and support people to: CHECK – SWITCH – SAVE to save both money and energy Energy bills form a big part of everyone’s expenditure and in the winter months most of us use more energy. You can follow these […]
A budget tells us what we can’t afford but it doesn’t keep us from buying it. William Feather, American author and publisher. Debt affects us in so many ways. From the austerity resulting from the unimaginably large debts of nations to challenges faced by every household to make ends meet. One of the most difficult […]
I have a PPM and I have just received a SAM telling me I am going to receive a GER worth £12 PDQ. Is this OK? It sometimes seems that people use abbreviations or acronyms to create confusion. This is not a recent phenomenon. In the early nineteenth century in the USA there was a […]