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MSE News: Bills to drop for three million prepayment energy customers

Former_MSE_Ben_S
Former_MSE_Ben_S Posts: 39 Forumite
edited 7 August 2017 at 3:34PM in Energy
Energy regulator Ofgem is tightening the prepayment meter price cap, saving three million customers an average of £19 a year...
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'Bills to drop for three million prepayment energy customers'
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  • robin58
    robin58 Posts: 2,802 Forumite
    edited 7 August 2017 at 6:18PM
    Wow £19 saving a year, about 36p a week. That should stop the poorest in society starving then.

    Ofgem why bother.
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  • matelodave
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    How much extra is it going to cost the rest of us though
    Never under estimate the power of stupid people in large numbers
  • molerat
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    Typical OFGEM headline grabbing seen to be doing something. Is Nero their chief exec ?
  • robin58
    robin58 Posts: 2,802 Forumite
    edited 7 August 2017 at 6:17PM
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    matelodave wrote: »
    How much extra is it going to cost the rest of us though
    No doubt an extra slice of a 1000th of a penny on all the other customers kwh.

    One thing I learnt whilst working in companies, when something is taken away, they will allways find a loophole or a way to claw it back so it's equalizes the original lose.
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  • badmemory
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    I'm struggling between deciding to call it negligible or laughable or even pathetic. A good headline with no substance!
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