Dear friend,
Some good news for the end of the year.
Ofgem, the energy sector regulator, has said today that they will look at introducing a new scheme to write off energy debt that has built up during the cost of living crisis!
Over 17,000 Debt Justice campaigners have been part of the campaign calling for an energy debt write off, with high bills impacting millions of us across the UK. Debt and arrears have risen by 91% in the last two years, and 75% of that debt sits with people who have no plan of how to pay it off.
It’s obvious that without change thousands of us would be saddled with unpayable debt for many years to come.
Even so, when we launched the campaign at the height of the cost of living crisis there was no guarantee we would win, but this shows that people power works! And, friend, we couldn’t have done it without you.