Sample letter

Re-negotiate with your domestic energy supplier if your current repayment arrangement is unaffordable (sole name)

Use this letter to help you negotiate with your domestic electricity or gas supplier to agree payments you can afford. The payments you offer should cover your current energy bills and repayments on the energy debt you owe. Only use this letter if you have already got a payment plan to repay your fuel debts but you need to change this because you cannot keep up with the payments. Contact us for advice before using this letter.

Letter in joint names

You can choose to send a letter in your own name or in joint names. You may have a debt in joint names, or want to write to your creditors together because you have worked out a joint budget.
 

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20 October 2019

Dear Sir/Madam


Account No:

Type of supply:

I am writing to you because I am unable to keep paying my repayment at the amount agreed.

I understand that I owe:

£ for my electricity;
£ for my gas.

The current repayment arrangement of £ is difficult for me to meet and I would like to negotiate a more affordable payment.

Ofgem requires energy suppliers to consider customers’ circumstances and ability to pay when agreeing a debt-repayment plan.

I ask you to agree a new repayment amount of £.

I enclose a copy of my budget sheet which shows this is all I can afford.

Please reply to this letter in writing within 10 working days, confirming my new repayment rate, including any other information you feel would be relevant or helpful to me (for example, trust fund information, energy efficiency information and so on).

I look forward to hearing from you.


Yours faithfully