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Warm Home Discount traps low-income households on worse energy deals

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Post by Admin Wed Apr 25, 2018 9:59 am

The £140 Warm Home Discount introduced to help people in fuel poverty can actually trap some low-income households in bad energy deals and must be overhauled, a new report says.

The Social Market Foundation think-tank found that the Warm Home Discount (WHD) can be responsible for discouraging some low-income customers from switching energy suppliers, increasing the risk that they pay a “poverty premium” or face losing the discount.

https://www.welfareweekly.com/warm-home-discount-traps-low-income-households-on-worse-energy-deals/
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