‘Staggering increase’ to disability energy helpline, Scope tells Channel 4 News - watch now!

Tori_Scope

Alison Kerry, who works for Scope, has spoken to Channel 4 News about how the energy bills crisis is affecting disabled people.

For a lot of people it’s simply not possible to turn the power off. There are disabled people being robbed of their independence because they can’t afford to power an electric wheelchair or mobility scooter. The government needs to act right now. They need to prioritise support for disabled people right now.

Watch the report now:

https://youtu.be/hyVt6nxU62I

Over to you...

How are you being affected by the rising cost of energy bills? 

What do you think the government should be doing about it?

How do you feel about Cornwall Insights' prediction that energy bills could exceed £4,000 from January?

Biblioklept

Tori_Scope said:

What do you think the government should be doing about it?

They could:

• Be honest with the public about it
• Be honest about the causes
• Put a proper and actual cap on prices
• Explain why these companies are still recording record profits but allowed to increase prices exponentially and call it a 'cost of living crisis' so people feel it's unavoidable when it isn't
• Actually help people rather than throwing a few hundred quid at them to keep people happy and distracted and feel like they're being helped when actually the Gov are doing diddly squat  

I won't go on

Jo_2022

Thank you @Tori_Scope for this post!!      

Tori_Scope

Feel free to go on @Biblioklept... you've made some good points there!