'I ate once a day to pay for my energy bills'

A women from Kent has told us she used to eat only once a day to pay for her energy bills.

It comes with the energy price cap rising by 6.4% yesterday which means the annual energy bill for a household using a typical amount of gas and electricity will go up £111 a year, or £9.25 a month, to £1,849.

Becky Sawbridge is from Dover. She fell into debt three years ago after falling ill, and is still paying the money back, she said:

"When I become unwell I had to readjust how I lived, and I like many others had to really struggle for the best part of three years, before I could see anything from it.

"I made sure I had one meal a day, usually at lunchtime, and I heated just one room, which meant I lived in either my living room or kitchen because I could put the gas cooker on in the latter and fire on in the former and then just I'd just sit in a room with my hot water bottles."

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