Almost 30 million households across the UK will receive £400 through the Energy Bills Support Scheme to help with their energy bills over winter, but communities who live off the grid fear they may be forgotten about. Nottinghamshire travellers say they are facing a difficult winter due to the rising prices of gas and electricity, and they are not aware of any possible funding from the government to help with their costs.
Households across the UK will receive monthly instalments of £66 or £67 from October 2022 until March 2023, which will automatically be applied by their energy suppliers. However, people that don't live in houses, such as on boats or in caravans; those don't have a domestic energy supplier and instead buy their electricity and gas commercially or from private landlords.
One of the travellers at a Tolney Lane site in Newark, Linda Smith, 67, said: "Obviously on here we need to buy the gas cannisters even though I'm in a chalet, and one of those bottles of gas now is just under £100. Everything runs on the gas, they last me about 10 days."
