Citizens Advice has warned that the “already worrying” number of energy customers self-disconnecting from pre-payment energy meters could soar amid the cost of living crisis.
The charity expects that in January pre-payment customers will need to find approximately £360 a month for their energy bills or risk being disconnected. January is typically a month where households are on a tight budget following Christmas.
As reported by the Daily Record, Citizens Advice has called for benefits to be increased in line with inflation, which at the moment is 10.1 per cent though is expected to rise to 11 per cent before the end of 2022.
