The regulator says it is concerned about the growth in households being switched to prepayment meters.
Energy firms are to be investigated by the industry regulator following a sharp rise in the number of households being forced onto prepayment meters.
that 3.2 million people in Britain ran out of credit on their prepayment meter last year, the equivalent of one every 10 seconds.who were doing "nowhere near enough" for vulnerable customers. "If we find that they have not taken due care in this process, we will take further legal action against them," he will say.
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