Public housing tenant Mel Fisher is one of the many Australians in energy debt. She is $6,000 in the hole and expects it will only keep getting deeper.
“It’s not getting better,” she told Yahoo Finance. “I am absolutely dreading the summer because I know that debt is going to get higher and higher.”
The 43-year-old has built up the $6,000 debt over a period of about six years and has to chip away at it by using her Centrelink payment each fortnight.
The Adelaide resident is one of the growing number of Aussies facing debt repayments after falling behind on their energy bills – something nearly one…