maximum amount that dual fuel customers can be charged per year if they pay by direct debit and they use an average amount of energy. of course some people will pay more. your supplier has to send you a notification if your bill is going up, and they have to tell you how much your direct debit is being changed by. if you haven t already had one of those letters or e mails, the chances are you will by the end of the week. we caught up with moira, who found at her bill will go up moira, who found at her bill will go up by a lot more than she was expecting. we ve had an email from our supplier that tells us to expect at least a £60 a month increase, based on the fact that it could go up by our bill could go up overall by 75% on what we pay now. and we ve already seen increases over the last year some of which based on working at home, obviously we re here more, we re using more energy. but our energy bills have been going up for the last year. they ve just gone up again and, with t
when we saw the email, we were concerned because another £60 is a bigjump. it s notjust the one bill, it s on top of a range of our utility and household bills that are going up a great deal. there s a possibility that in october it might increase again, and that despite obviously a lot of effort by everybody, nobody really knows what might happen over the next year. this might be a long time over which people are going to have to deal with this. moira isn t alone. take a look on social media and you ll see the shock from people. rachelle says her estimated bill is now £300 a month. last year it was just £70.