Housing associations ask ministers to reopen £400 energy bill support scheme
by Jillian Ambrose Energy correspondent from World news | The Guardian on (#6DT6S)
People in care homes, narrowboats and park homes have missed out because they do not have a supplier
More than 30 of Britain's largest housing associations have called on ministers to give a second chance to 750,000 households that missed out on government support for energy bills worth a total of 300m.
In a letter to ministers, seen by the Guardian, 34 housing associations called for the government to reopen a scheme that aimed to offer support payments of 400 to almost one million households without an energy supplier.
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