Energy crisis: UK fuel poverty forcing people to food banks

High energy bills have been fuelling the pain for those hit hard by the cost-of-living crisis.

Gas and electricity prices may have fallen, but new data shows more than three million households were still in fuel poverty last year - meaning they're living in draughty homes and struggling to pay their bills.

We’ve been to Coventry, where 20% of households are in fuel poverty.

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[lilacbookshelf]

British Gas's profits have increased 943% within a single year. They could lower the prices and still make a killing. Pure greed.

[WhichDoctor]

All while the Tories allowed British Gas’s profits to increase 900% last year. Maybe we should stop energy companies profiteering off the backs of working people, and then people wouldn’t be soo poor? Is that really such a crazy idea?

[TheSuperPsychoKiller]

Government help with bills is just using your taxes to pay energy companies. It’s making the country poorer and energy companies richer.

[DavidJohnson-dclu]

I dislike the term fuel poverty, once upon a time ago my gas was no more than £20 a week, now it is £1 an hour to heat my home, and I now no longer heat my home with gas. Electric blanks, hot water bottles, warm clothes, warmer food and more exericising, and I have slashed my energy bills by doing this. This isn't about fuel poverty it is about EXPENSIVE fuel prices.

[shig]

Standing charges are high whether you use power or not

[MrBravoBradshaw]

This is a disgrace. We as UK citizens should be ashamed.

[markhayward]

British Gas profits increased ten fold in 2023 to £750 million.

With a stat like this, it is not hard to find the reason for increasing fuel poverty in the UK:

profiteering by the energy companies that is being encouraged by their supine and complicit regulator, OfGem

[Abraham_Tsfaye]

When I was in UK. I saw empty boarded up streets under a constant grey sky, litter everywhere.
Homeless people sleeping in doorways. A women with cat whiskers makeup casually walking into Tesco with her pajamas. Opioid addicts out of their mind and women so drunk they urinated on the streets.
It's a sad declined country.

[BettyFoster-yvfe]

*I'm 50 years old and living in Germany Berlin🇩🇪 I'm willing to retire at 55 if things keep going the way I planned bought my first house last week I'm glad I made a productive decision that has changed my life forever can't be more proud that I'm right now*

[aarhusnord]

Denmark here 🇩🇰 Either you accept the system and nothing happens. Or you go to the streets and make the whole country come to a complete halt. Yes, there will be victims. But I see no other way. Individualizing the problem is a problem in itself. When you take away the personal shame and turn it into open protest, that's the first step. I am poor and I am proud.

[rchlletters]

When people have to unplug their refrigerators to conserve you have a huge problem.

[Nemo]

British Gas Profit Increase by 943%.
Price gouging by the energy suppliers as wholesale gas prices went down to pre corvid prices. Don't forget the big increases in standing charges for this year!😪

[kevinwilliams]

as a foreigner watching this I am very surprise to see what is happening in the U.K. I hope a turn around happens for many people .

[susanpettitt]

look at British Gas profits disgrace Enough GE

[angelmusic]

I'm in the US. This is the first month where if I pay all of the utilities, there is zero money for food.

[LazyDaisyDay]

We've had a very mild winter. Can't imagine what the statistics would look like if we had a cold one.

[daviniarobbins]

Ten years ago my electric was about £17 a month. It is now at least £60. It has more than tripled in that time. It has doubled since 2020.

[cosminpopa]

I wanted to go in England to work but seeing this is discouraging.

[contemplatinggod]

Me too. Energy bill is now crazy.
I was paying £60-70 on energy before ukraine war but today i’m paying £130 . Even when I try not to use any energy!
I am poor

[acspeter]

In Eastern Europe the people live much better in a country where the GDP is much worse