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Daily Mirror
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Ruby Flanagan

DWP makes changes for people paying energy bill debt through benefits

The Department for Work and Pensions (DWP) has made changes to its Fuel Direct payment scheme this month.

The Fuel Direct scheme helps benefit claimants pay off their energy debts by taking off a chunk of their benefit payments to repay the money they owed.

The new changes allow UK energy suppliers to request new deductions from claimants and increase the deductions they are already paying.

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