AF62 wrote:richlist wrote:Won't we all be turning the gas central heating off around April ? That should provide a respite until Autumn.
Depends whether
a. people accept the vastly increased monthly DD payments the suppliers will request and seriously cut back their spending now so they have built up some credit over summer to tide them over the winter when the heating comes back on, or
b. they refuse to 'lend them the supplier the money' because they don't have it now, so come the winter and the enormous bills come through they can't afford to pay and get cut off.
I suspect there will be a *lot* of b type customers.
Maybe a lot of these "b types" will be 80+ year old pensioners who can't afford the bills yet cannot be cutoff..guess where the money lost will be recouped from?