Age UK responds to Ofcom’s energy price cap announcement today

Caroline Abrahams Charity Director at Age UK said:

"Older people, struggling without their Winter Fuel Payment, who were praying for a reduction in energy prices to help them in the New Year, will be bitterly disappointed today. The news that the energy price cap is instead slightly rising is the latest in a series of blows for pensioners living on a low or modest income, who do not receive Pension Credit because they don't claim it or are not eligible. There are millions of older people in this situation and we know that many are hoping against hope that something will turn up to help ease their situation over the next few months, when the weather is at its coldest.

"If you are an older person for whom every penny counts, managing your energy bills until the rise in your State Pension starts coming through from April, just got harder."