How the f*** are you all managing your electric bills?

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I don't have gas...
Electric has gone up from 139 per month, to 225, and now the latest is 450...

I don't know how I'm supposed to manage.

Do you all pay by DD. I don't want a meter, I had one before, and it was a nightmare, so expensive.

If 450 goes out of my account next month I won't be able to buy food or petrol or clothes

I got the 150 from the council, and paid it immediately into my electric ,b ut that's a drop in the ocean. How are you all managing.

I'm really really scared.

To the lady giving up work . Thank you to my son who has just left for a 12 hour shift in a food production company and is paying a lot of tax.Also to my 70 year old DH paying a lot too.
Your Welcome

Only a mug would continue to work if it made them worse off.

Without swearing!

I cancelled my dd and I'm just going to pay a set amount each month that I can. Single mum it's a lot and as long as you're paying something they can't cut you off. I mean I'm paying £180 a month and that doesn't cover all of it . But it is what it is they get that or nothing up to them

Octopus.......energy.....very willing to co operate and help customers

Mines gone up to £425. Cancelled the DD and will continue to pay them the £300 I was paying. It’s ridiculous.

Debt lots and lots of debt to my supplier 🤷‍♀️
Cant get blood out of a stone….

How's your relationship with your landlord? Could you speak to them about the possibility of a gas boiler?

The only way we are managing is that I switched to a 2 year fixed rate in July. I'm going to start overpaying next year so when the tariff ends I have credit built up.

Switch everything off at the wall, put extra layers on rather than immediately putting heaters on, showers not baths. Buying an Oodie stopped us putting the heating on when se had the sudden cold snap in March/April....

They, being us, the tax payer. It is not from Bozza's private bank account!

You aren’t the only one scared OP.
i’ve cancelled my DD, can’t afford what they want me to pay, so just pay what I can when I can. If there’s some spare at the end of the month I’ll add that in. I don’t know where we’re all expected to find 5 or 6 times the amount I was paying overnight.

To know it’s going up again and they’ll have wanted to increase it to something ludicrous doesn’t bare thinking about, to receive that message with how much it would have been would only stress me out further.

Definitely check your actual usage. We were paying £85 a month, then after the price increase they said it would be around £130 a month. We were thinking we'd just chuck a few £1000 in the account and let it feed off that for a while, but we waited to see how our usage actually compared, and ended up in credit just letting the DD take. We've now reduced it to £95 for gas and electricity (large 4 bed house) and we're always a little in credit when the bill takes. That's on standard variable rate.

Has Op come back and bothered to provide her actual useage?

Get them to check it if you have a smart meter as they can play up apparently and give false readings

Totally agree with you, workwork21.

Comedycook · Today 15:40
To the lady giving up work . Thank you to my son who has just left for a 12 hour shift in a food production company and is paying a lot of tax.Also to my 70 year old DH paying a lot too.
Your Welcome

How narrow minded, imagine someone said that to you & yours if you happen to need support.
I paid ridiculous amount of tax for years & now I have had to claim UC too.
Am I getting scolded?

Im a carer, left my ex dh due to horrific dv
lost my home, Iv lost my business, I’m due to be homeless, I’m disabled and have just been diagnosed with PTSD after a breakdown.
People need to claim for all sorts of reasons, and you should be ashamed putting people down who need help especially at the moment.
God forbid you need to claim 🙄

on the subject of gas/elec though mines gone from £80 to £240 well that’s what they want a month but it’s impossible at the moment.
I am happy to hear some people are ok on UC though as I’m really struggling.
Its just so sad when you hear comments like the one above.
Bet you wouldn’t say it in public though ‘so nasty’
Go educate yourself!

And today we find out that by the time we actually start using most of our Gas & Electric the costs are set to rise to almost £3000 per year on average per household.

It’s respected that 12 million households could be living in fuel poverty by the end of the year.

Welcome to third world Britain paying first world taxes

You can't blame someone for resorting to benefits when they are in genuine need like this. I would have 100% have done the same thing.

I set my DD and then reset it to the same value every time they increase it.
I'm currently less that £100 in debt, but will be in credit by the end of the summer as long as usage doesn't change.

I'm paying a set price every month which is twice the price it used to be and they can "get tae fuck" for the rest, as my Nana would have said. I'm literally biding time until the government sort this shit out, because it's absolute shite

@OldieWordly she didn't say she wasn't.
If the statement is even true. There's a cap in rent, so if it's above that, then you have to top that up too. The rents are rocketing too.
People in work can also claim UC and use it towards rent.

God I do hope the Gov sort this out it’s ridiculous, can just see disaster looming an awful story’s of the suffering this is going to cause.
even cutting back it’s extortionate pricing and nobody’s better than the other so naff all you can do to get a better rate 😕

I fixed. I didn’t understand why Martin Lewis said not no. I chose one where you could change the product without charge.
Elec 19.45unit, 23.77 s/c
gas 3.78, 26.12. Fixed until Nov 23

When are the government going to do something to f*ing help ?????

You must have fixed when good deals were on offer. There are no good deals now

When I worked in social care the service users who didn't work had a lot of income, much more than the support workers who worked with them were earning. If you are paying a mortgage you need to work as help with a mortgage is very scanty. The Government is not interested in helping people (who have lost their jobs through no fault of their own) to pay their mortgages in order to keep their homes & to be self sufficient in retirement - they only help people who rent.

lollipoprainbow

It will only be once all the story’s of struggling and suffering are that bad they are backed into a corner, I doubt even then it will be enough.