LBC caller: I've not paid my electric bill for the last six months - and gas bill - I can't afford it ShelaghFogarty
Shelagh Fogarty caller admits he hasn't paid his electric and gas bills and is just waiting for his energy company to "cut" him off.Shelagh Fogarty told the caller: "Interest rates were one thing, we were bracing for that anyway but we weren't expecting them to go up by six percent overnight...that's what happened after the mini-budget.
"If they are giving people on Universal Credit, two hundred pounds, three hundred pounds in October, most people will just spend on other things.""I'm not paying my bills, I am not paying my bills. I've not paid my electric bill in the last six months, and gas bill - I can't afford it. "...I'm just waiting for them to cut me off or whatever they're going to do, I don't know. I've got no idea how I am going to pay off all the debt," the caller confessed.
Shelagh asked whether the companies he has outstanding bills for have tried to contact him, he revealed they did once and he didn't respond.Concluding their call Shelagh asked him to not let it "drown" him saying, it's "better to address it than ignore it".
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