{"id":143662,"date":"2023-09-29T06:53:04","date_gmt":"2023-09-29T06:53:04","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/celebritywshow.com\/?p=143662"},"modified":"2023-09-29T06:53:04","modified_gmt":"2023-09-29T06:53:04","slug":"major-energy-supplier-to-slash-bills-after-martin-lewis-demanded-change-to-morally-hazardous-charge-the-sun","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/celebritywshow.com\/lifestyle\/major-energy-supplier-to-slash-bills-after-martin-lewis-demanded-change-to-morally-hazardous-charge-the-sun\/","title":{"rendered":"Major energy supplier to slash bills after Martin Lewis demanded change to 'morally hazardous' charge | The Sun"},"content":{"rendered":"

HARD-UP households will pay less for their energy bills this winter thanks to a \u00a340million support package.<\/p>\n

EDF will roll back standing charges to pre-energy crisis levels for its most vulnerable customers.<\/p>\n

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A standing charge is a fixed amount that customers must pay on their energy bill regardless of how much gas and electricity they use.<\/p>\n

The daily standing charges on a household energy bill have increased by 107% and 8.2% on gas for a direct debit customer since April 2021.<\/p>\n

At the same time, current schemes like the warm home discount haven\u2019t increased since before the energy crisis, despite energy bills being almost double.\u00a0\u00a0<\/p>\n

However, EDF has now made a commitment to help struggling households by boosting its support for those in need by more than \u00a315million.<\/p>\n

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Around \u00a37.5million will be spent directly on rolling back standing charges for at least 260,000 warm home discount customers to their pre-crisis level for the first quarter of 2024.<\/p>\n

The financial support will be applied to eligible customers' accounts as a \u00a330 credit in December.<\/p>\n

This means standing charges will effectively be an average of 56p instead of 87p per day, covering the period from January through to March.\u00a0\u00a0 <\/p>\n

Additional funding will also be made available for its customer support fund, which provides debt relief and energy-efficient white goods to those in need.<\/p>\n

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What is a standing charge? <\/h2>\n

The charges make up around \u00a3300 of most households' yearly energy bills.<\/p>\n

Despite energy bills dropping by \u00a3426 a year at the start of July, the daily standing charges remained the same.<\/p>\n

MoneySavingExpert and Martin Lewis have been campaigning for these charges to be lowered and Martin has previously described them as a "moral hazard".<\/p>\n

Speaking in June, he said: "It is outrageous that people have to pay \u00a3300\/yr just for the facility of having gas and electricity even if they use none."<\/p>\n

He added: "Keeping the standing charge high means lower users can save proportionately less and less by reducing usage – that disempowers them."<\/p>\n

The current standard charges for a typical household are as follows:<\/p>\n