Energy customers urged to switch to beat winter fuel payments changes

UK suppliers' new fixed-rate tariffs could keep household bills down - and beat forecast energy cap rise

Pensioners who learned this week that their winter fuel payments were being stopped - and anyone else who wants to cut their gas and electricity bills this winter - should consider one of the fixed-rate tariffs launched in recent days.

Until now, the handful of fixed-rate energy deals offered by UK energy suppliers just haven't been cheap enough to tempt us to recommend them.