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Energy Costs
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1st July 2019 by Norman Davies in Campaigns
Energy Issues? We can Help: How we Helped Joan.
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 […]
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6th February 2019 by Norman Davies in Campaigns
Will you be finding it hard to pay your fuel bills this winter?
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 […]
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31st March 2016 by manager in Campaigns
To Switch or Not to Switch
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 […]
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17th December 2015 by Norman Davies in Campaigns
Switching our suppliers
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 […]
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25th October 2015 by Norman Davies in Campaigns
Big Energy Saving Week Begins 26 October 2015
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 […]
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11th February 2015 by manager in Campaigns
Energy costs without hot air (with apologies to David Mackay)
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 […]
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16th October 2014 by manager in Campaigns
The energy cost / subsidy merry-go-round
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 […]
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