A woman from Bristol has shared her despair at the lack of help from anyone after her energy bills soared from £78 a month to £218 a month.
Kate, a disabled woman from Bristol, called Jeremy Kyle’s Talk TV phone-in show to explain her struggles, as the Government again refused growing calls to impose a windfall tax on the huge profits energy companies are making.
The woman only gave her name as Kate, and said she was on Personal Independence Payments, as she could not work because of her disabilities, the Express reported.
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She told Talk TV: "I'm on standard PIP (Personal Independence Payment), I'm disabled I can't do a lot.
"And my car is about to die, obviously trying to save on benefits is impossible. And my fuel bill has gone from £78 to £218 a month.
"So, I'm kind of in between a rock and a hard place at the moment, there's no help for me anywhere,” she added.
The Government announced a one-off £200 loan to people to help with energy bills, which would kick in this autumn, but has so far resisted growing calls to impose a windfall tax on the huge profits being made by energy, fuel, oil and gas companies. Those calls grew this week when BP said it made an underlying profit of £4.9 billion in just the first three months of 2022 - almost three times the profit it made from the same three months last year.
The energy giant also said a windfall tax imposed by the Government in the UK would not prevent it from investing in the UK - something the Prime Minister Boris Johnson gave as a reason for not imposing a windfall tax on the energy companies.
The rise in oil and gas prices, caused in part by the Russian invasion of Ukraine, has added to a cost of living crisis, sending bills for electricity, gas, petrol and groceries soaring.
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