Emergency electric

[Sophie200000]

I just ran out of electric and put the £5 emergency on how long will that last as I have 2 kids under age of 2 and I don't get paid till Thursday and I don't know what to do of it goes out as there's no one I can ask to lend money to get electric as my youngest is 3 months and she needs bottles of my emergency runs out I won't be able to give her any bottles what do I do

How much do you normally top up by a week/month?

I suppose how long it will last will depend on how many appliances you have etc. Hard to say

There's done helpful info here about contacting your supplier. It would be best to call them now befire you run out www.citizensadvice.org.uk/consumer/energy/energy-supply/get-help-paying-your-bills/you-cant-afford-to-top-up-your-prepayment-meter/

Once you get below 50p, you can call the electric company, someone should be able to come out and loan your meter, a few pounds more for the emergency, so you won't run out.

£5 should last until Thursday. It's only a day and a half.

I have no signal in my erea so it will be hard to call them

20 a week

Could you message your supplier? Or email them?
And hopefully the £5 top up will be sufficient until tomorrow. I think it should be if £20 works for a week.

You’ll be absolutely fine. Don’t run anything non essential - washing can wait another day, for example. Remember when you next top up it will last slightly less because you’ll be paying back whatever you used of the emergency.

My sympathies, OP; i don’t know how people manage on a prepay Meter, it would do my head in!

Then you need to go where you do have phone signal, or use WiFi calling. You have Internet signal - are you using house WiFi? See if your electricity supplier has an online chat facility.

Call your Health Visitor team, you have a 3mth old, and discuss with them as well.

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£5 should last a day, as others say, contact your supplier.

My emergency £5 will easily last a couple of days so you should be absolutely fine til Thursday OP.

A fiver will last as long as you don't run the washing machine or put the oven on. Do speak to your HV, though.

Don't do anything that isn't essential but if £20 lasts you 7 days normally then £5 will last till tomorrow.