£1.3Bn Energy Debt Triples In 10 Months

Cost Of Living Crisis

- Graham Hiscott

• £206 Amount one in four households owe to energy providers
• 9M Number of households that could be in fuel poverty from October

HOUSEHOLDS are lumbered with a record £1.3billion of energy debt — three times that of last September.

Those paying by monthly direct debit are usually in credit now as gas usage falls in the summer.