Households could soon be made to pay £30 on top of their energy bills to subsidise customers who are not paying their bills.
Energy regulator Ofgem is considering allowing suppliers to make an additional charge to bill payers to help make up the shortfall caused by other households who are missing payments in the cost of living crisis.
Ofgem could introduce the charge on energy bills as early as October, to reimburse companies for rising levels of customer debt that it estimates could total hundreds of millions of pounds following curbs on prepayment meter installations, according to The Times
