The Government is under mounting pressure to ban energy firms from forcing customers to have prepayment meters.
Groups including Fuel Poverty Action and the National Pensioner’s Convention yesterday (Thursday) ramped-up calls for the practice to be halted amid fears that some of Britain’s poorest households are being left without heating as temperatures plummet.
A recent report from Citizens Advice found an estimated 3.2 million people could not afford to top-up their energy meter last year.
