Ombudsman Houtman notes that the number of complaints about energy suppliers has increased sharply since the beginning of September last year. “That was at a time when energy prices were rising sharply. A number of suppliers suddenly implemented advance increases. This often happened unilaterally, without the possibility for customers to make a counter-proposal and those advance increases have continued.
The Network Against Poverty, like Saamo (formerly non-profit association Society Building), argues in favor of retaining the social rate for people with an increased allowance. At the moment, almost twenty percent of the people with the lowest incomes benefit from this scheme, but the scheme will expire on 1 April.
“The extended social energy tariff must in any case be structurally anchored, for the extended group. These are actually all people at or below the poverty line. I think that is really justified. Moreover, we now also see that the social energy tariff is also saved just ten percent. is”, says Heidi Degerickx of the Network Against Poverty in “Het journaal”.
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