I am with Scottish Hydro and Last winter I was paying £70 a Week for my Electricity, (£10 a Day, PAYG Meter), so this year I will be paying even more. My pension has not gone up, in actual fact I am getting less money as I have had £6.30 a week taken off my Pension Credit as the DWP say that due to a mistake that they made, they had paid me too much last year.
The Government say that if anyone spends 10% of their income on Fuel then they are in Fuel Poverity. This year I will have to spend at least 40% of my weekly income on Electricity so I guess I will be in Extreme Fuel Poverty.
It does not matter though as SSE, who own Scottish Hydro, only made £2.5Billion Profit last year and they really need the money I pay.
Deep into that darkness peering, long I stood there, wondering, fearing, doubting, dreaming dreams no mortal ever dared to dream before.
Edgar Allen Poe
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