{"id":55412,"date":"2026-06-26T19:24:08","date_gmt":"2026-06-26T19:24:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/news.godj.com\/news\/how-you-can-save-money-on-your-energy-bill-as-debts-rise\/"},"modified":"2026-06-26T19:24:08","modified_gmt":"2026-06-26T19:24:08","slug":"how-you-can-save-money-on-your-energy-bill-as-debts-rise","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/news.godj.com\/news\/how-you-can-save-money-on-your-energy-bill-as-debts-rise\/","title":{"rendered":"How you can save money on your energy bill as debts rise"},"content":{"rendered":"<p> <br \/>\n<\/p>\n<div>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\"><b class=\"ssrcss-1xjjfut-BoldText e5tfeyi3\">The amount of money owed to energy suppliers by customers has risen again to a new record high of \u00a34.79bn.<\/b><\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">Regulator Ofgem said that total debt and arrears in England, Wales and Scotland had risen by 15% in a year.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.ofgem.gov.uk\/data\/debt-and-arrears-indicators\" class=\"ssrcss-1e0jzsh-InlineLink e1kn3p7n0\">The data<span class=\"visually-hidden ssrcss-i2z2ig-VisuallyHidden e16en2lz0\">, <!-- -->external<\/span><\/a> is updated every three months, with the newly-published figures covering the period from January to the end of March. They relate to energy customers who have been in debt for more than three months.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">Average arrears for those without a repayment plan hit \u00a31,876 for electricity and \u00a31,623 for gas \u2013 more than twice the amount as those who have a repayment agreement.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">Energy prices <a href=\"https:\/\/www.bbc.co.uk\/news\/articles\/ce8pw464986o\" class=\"ssrcss-1e0jzsh-InlineLink e1kn3p7n0\">will rise for millions of households in July<\/a> \u2013 driven by the increase in the cost of gas.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">Experts say there are options to cut bills, even though people may feel they have already made every saving possible.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p><br \/>\n<br \/><a href=\"https:\/\/www.bbc.co.uk\/news\/articles\/cwy2e3wx7xwo?at_medium=RSS&#038;at_campaign=rss\">Source link <\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The amount of money owed to energy suppliers by customers has risen again to a new record high of \u00a34.79bn. Regulator Ofgem said that total debt and arrears in England, Wales and Scotland had risen by 15% in a year. The data, external is updated every three months, with the newly-published figures covering the period [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":55413,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[61],"tags":[575,7315,908,262,432,1128],"class_list":["post-55412","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-economy","tag-bill","tag-debts","tag-energy","tag-money","tag-rise","tag-save"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/news.godj.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/55412","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/news.godj.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/news.godj.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news.godj.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news.godj.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=55412"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/news.godj.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/55412\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":55414,"href":"https:\/\/news.godj.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/55412\/revisions\/55414"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news.godj.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/55413"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/news.godj.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=55412"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news.godj.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=55412"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news.godj.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=55412"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}