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The Guardian - UK
The Guardian - UK
Business
Jillian Ambrose Energy correspondent

Energy bills: don’t break promise on social tariff, Sunak urged

Close-up of an energy bill showing prices going up
Experts warn high energy bills will continue for many years after the remaining support schemes end next April. Photograph: Carolyn Jenkins/Alamy

More than 140 organisations and individuals, including the consumer champion Martin Lewis, have told Rishi Sunak to make good on a promise to help Britain’s least well-off households with a social tariff for their gas and electricity.

The group has written to the prime minister reiterating calls to fulfil a government pledge to help vulnerable households with a discounted rate for energy bills before the last remaining support schemes come to an end in April.

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