The Government may be planning on scrapping the £500 hike in the average energy bill next month amid pressure from fuel poverty campaigners.
Some energy suppliers are said to be preparing April bills with the expectation that the Energy Price Guarantee (EPG) will be retained at or very near the current £2,500 level, according to money saving expert Martin Lewis. The Government has previously said all help for bills is under review, although Chancellor Jeremy Hunt has so far declined to extend the support, with the figure currently due to rise to £3,000 on April 1. However experts are suggesting it is increasingly likely he will change course, probably at the Budget on March 15.
Energy Secretary Grant Shapps previously said he is "very sympathetic" to suggestions that the planned £500 rise in bills should be stopped, although a Treasury source declined to comment, according to the BBC.
