A single mother-of-two whose energy bill soared to £760 a month cannot afford to heat the home and uses candles for light. Struggling Nicola Elson, 32, says she has to fork out up to £760 a month for electricity at her two-bed flat.
She has lived in the property for the past year and spends the majority of her salary towards her electricity meter. She says she sits with candles on at night with the heating off in order to save the pennies - which means her two children often have to stay elsewhere.
Nicola said: “There have been times I have had to pick food or electric, or I have had to borrow off friends and family to get things I have ran out of, or even to put the electric on. My children’s grandparents have to pay for my children’s shoes, coats, bags, lunches, sometimes clothes because everything I have goes on my meter.
