Teesside debt support charity on hand to help as energy price cap rises

Ofgem’s increasing the energy price cap by 4%

A debt support charity in Teesside say they’re on hand to help today as energy prices rises from today.

Ofgem’s increasing the cap by 4% meaning the average household will pay around £60 more a year or £5 a month extra.

Michele Van Zyl, debt centre manager at Christians Against Poverty in Hartlepool, said: “People have just been struggling for a really long time and I think for some people because of this price rise, they’re just despairing even more. Whereas maybe sometimes they would have thought ‘okay, I could do a payment plan, I could start to plug away at my debt even…