Consumers react to 54% energy price cap hike
Consumers have described their worries for a “bleak” future because of another rise in energy prices.
One mother said she was “absolutely horrified” by a 54% increase in the price cap announced by regulator Ofgem, which will see bills rise by £693 for millions of households from April.
And a man who has spent the winter largely confined to one room in his flat in an attempt to keep his bills down described how things are “going to get even harder”.
Melanie, who lives with her partner and six-year-old daughter in Flintshire and did not wish to give her surname, said: “If things keep rising the way they are, we’re going to be in a terrible predicament where yeah, we are gonna have to start considering using food banks.
“We pride ourselves on every time we do a food shop, we buy at least one thing for the food bank – the tables are going to turn where we’re having to possibly ask them for help after April.”
She added: “I just feel very let down and almost like those of us in need have been set adrift without a life buoy being thrown to us when it could be. It almost feels like we’re there bobbing about on our raft, trying to tread water while they sail on by in their yachts drinking champagne.”
