Well we’re struggling here with the electric.
When it went up on the first of April, ‘round about that time, I put a whacking bit on it, a hundred odd quid. The prices hadn’t gone up yet – the day after I’d have had less time on my meter. So I put that in.
After that it’s off as soon as you put it on. We’re forever at the shop putting money on it.
We’re on higher rates anyway cause I’m on a card meter. So you’re on a higher tariff on a card meter or a key meter, which is completely ridiculous because most people on card and key meters are the poorest ones.
Shouldn’t it be less. They put you on a bigger tariff because you’re pay as you go. Which is ridiculous. I can only afford pay as you go, you know?
If I get a whacking bill at the end of the month, I’m like, I can’t afford it. What do we do then?
My mam came the other day. She’s on benefits ‘cause she had cancer. She has lots of ailments anyway. So me dad was her carer and stuff, he’s just turned pension age now though. And they’ve put her electric bill up. And I think for double.
So I got on the phone to the electric supplier and said, listen, you’re not allowed to put it up double. She’s on benefits. You’re not allowed to put it up at the minute.
Anybody who’s on benefits, they’re not allowed to increase the energy prices on them I think until April 2023. Well this guy’s gone, ‘We’re not in that scheme’. I said, ‘All of you are mate, you can’t just pick and choose!’
My rent went up by a hundred quid, not long ago. My brother, I think he was paying £550, it’s gone up to £700 or something now. £700 a month. What do they want him to do? Just work, work, work. Work to live in the house. He’s never going to see the house because he’s always at work. He’s paying for a place he’s not even staying in.
If these people in the past couldn’t afford the bills in the first place. How are they gonna afford double or triple? You can’t get blood out of a stone.
Do these people not realise that or not?