A new “social tariff” should be brought in to help four million low-income households with energy bills, campaigners say.
They want regulator Ofgem to back the scheme to slash costs for the most vulnerable.
On Tuesday MPs will grill Ofgem, energy suppliers and consumer groups at a hearing of the House of Commons Business, Enterprise and Industrial Strategy committee. Campaign group National Energy Action says hard up families will be more than £500-a-year worse off after a record 54 per cent hike in Ofgem’s energy price cap.
