Government should introduce low-income power contracts - opinion
Frankfurter Rundschau
The next federal government should help low-income households afford electricity, through measures such as special rates or free basic volumes that cannot be cut off, Timot Szent-Ivanyi says in an opinion piece for Frankfurter Rundschau. Szent-Ivanyi says one had to assume that this was not due to consumers being forgetful or rebellious. Most of the approximately 300,000 households whose power was cut off in 2016 could not afford to pay their bills, due to low incomes, high power prices, and the fact that poorer people cannot afford energy-saving household appliances, he writes.
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