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Evening Standard
Evening Standard
Henry Saker-Clark

Energy debt to be written off for thousands as others face £5 rise to bills

A total of 1,133,683 electricity customers and 926,545 gas customers are in debt without any repayment arrangement in place (Alamy/PA) -

Up to £500 million of energy bill debt is to be paid off through bill increases spread across millions of UK households, the energy regulator has said.

UK households are set to face a £5 increase in their annual energy costs to help cover the costs of energy debt that will be written off because it has never been paid.

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