{"id":132247,"date":"2022-12-06T00:27:13","date_gmt":"2022-12-05T17:27:13","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.siamlandbank.com\/propertynews\/property-news\/millions-of-renters-may-miss-out-on-help-with-energy-bills-letter\/"},"modified":"2022-12-06T00:41:32","modified_gmt":"2022-12-05T17:41:32","slug":"millions-of-renters-may-miss-out-on-help-with-energy-bills-letter","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.siamlandbank.com\/propertynews\/property-news\/millions-of-renters-may-miss-out-on-help-with-energy-bills-letter\/","title":{"rendered":"Millions of renters may miss out on help with energy bills | Letter"},"content":{"rendered":"


\nWill Harris says those living in houses of multiple occupation are falling through the gap when it comes to government supportYou report (2 December) that half a million customers are waiting for prepayment vouchers under the energy bills support scheme. A further potentially two million customers know that they will not receive vouchers under the scheme. These customers are tenants in the 497,000 homes with multiple occupancy (HMO), who may not have a contract with an energy company, but instead receive their energy via a landlord-installed prepayment sub-meter.There is no register of such sub-meters \u2013 it is not a legal requirement for getting an HMO licence \u2013 and energy suppliers have no statutory obligation to register landlord prepayment sub-meters. So it is impossible to identify these tenants and provide the \u00a3400 energy rebate that has been promised to every household. Continue reading…
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\nSource : theguardian.com
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Will Harris says those living in houses of multiple occupation are falling through the gap...<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"false","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"spay_email":"","footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_is_tweetstorm":false,"jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-132247","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-property-news"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p75ss1-yp1","jetpack-related-posts":[{"id":71430,"url":"https:\/\/www.siamlandbank.com\/propertynews\/property-news\/legal-costs-capped-for-those-who-cant-pay-energy-bills\/","url_meta":{"origin":132247,"position":0},"title":"Legal costs capped for those who can't pay energy bills","date":"November 10, 2017","format":false,"excerpt":"\r Charges incurred by gas and electricity companies limited to \u00a3150 after Ofgem rules to protect improverished customersGas and electricity customers who have fallen so far behind with their payments that they are forced to have a prepayment meter, are to have their court and legal charges capped at \u00a3150\u2026","rel":"","context":"In "Property News"","img":{"alt_text":"","src":"","width":0,"height":0},"classes":[]},{"id":124008,"url":"https:\/\/www.siamlandbank.com\/propertynews\/property-news\/british-gas-admits-an-error-that-could-lose-me-a-new-home\/","url_meta":{"origin":132247,"position":1},"title":"British Gas admits an error that could lose me a new home","date":"December 29, 2021","format":false,"excerpt":"\r My mortgage application was declined because of its mistake on my credit fileMy daughter faces having nowhere to live because of billing mistakes by British Gas. 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