Fuel Poverty

Up to £30 million will be made available through the Fuel Insecurity Fund next year to help households who are at risk of self-rationing or self-disconnecting their energy use, first minister Humza Yousaf has announced.

The Citizens Advice network in Scotland helped people with energy issues more than 12,000 times in February, new data from Citizens Advice Scotland (CAS) has revealed. In total, the CAB network issued advice on gas and electricity 12,386 times in February. Gas and electricity remained the single top

The Energy Price Guarantee, which caps typical energy bills at £2,500, will be maintained at the same level for a further three months over April, May, and June, Chancellor Jeremy Hunt announced yesterday as part of his Spring Budget.

One-third of domestic energy consumers did not manage well financially during the winter, new research shows.

Harbour Homes has received an award from The National Lottery Community Fund to help tenants of seven housing associations with fuel poverty and energy efficiency during the cost of living crisis. Harbour Homes, along with six other landlords that make up the ARCHIE alliance, own and manage 6,000 so

The Ofgem Energy Industry Voluntary Redress Scheme has awarded £9.7 million in grants to 33 organisations across England, Scotland and Wales in its latest funding round.

The Energy Price Guarantee (EPG) should be maintained at its current level for a further three months, Consumer Scotland has said.

Hundreds of Highland households worried about rising fuel bills and the cost of living have been given much needed support from Albyn Housing Society this winter, through the housing association’s Fuel Support Fund. More than £85,000 worth of vouchers and equipment have been distributed

Age Scotland has called on the UK government to extend its energy support scheme in order to protect older people who are going to be faced with significantly higher bills in April. Responding to the announcement that the amount suppliers can charge households for energy has been cut by the regulato

Household energy bills will rise by an average of £500 despite a reduction in Ofgem’s energy cap.

More than 700 tenants of Grampian Housing Association are set to receive grants from the Scottish Government’s Social Housing Fuel Support Fund and The National Lottery Community Fund. With soaring energy bills and the cost of living crisis severely affecting many of the Association’s te

Help with heating costs is on its way to around 400,000 people on low incomes through a new Scottish Government benefit, with the first payments processed this week.

The City of Edinburgh Council is extending funding to its Energy Advice Service for council tenants, helping even more households to cut down on costs and carbon emissions.

Additional funding provided by the Scottish Government for the Social Housing Fuel Support Fund will help almost 30,000 more social housing tenants with spiralling fuel costs,  the Scottish Federation of Housing Associations (SFHA) has said. The fund is part of the Scottish Government

A scheme which has helped over 10,000 Dundee households facing fuel poverty with their energy costs has reopened to new applications.