Energy

Plans to give homeowners the option of switching their mortgage provider within just one week are being considered by the Government, as part of an effort to make switching easier for consumers across a range of sectors.

Some energy customers with prepay meters could save an average of almost £120/year by switching to one of the two cheapest new fixed-term tariffs.

The energy firm Co-operative Energy has been wrongly charging customers who want to switch to another provider up to £60 to leave, even though they're in the last 49 days of their contract and should be able to switch penalty-free, MoneySavingExpert.com has learned.

Scottish Power has been ordered to pay £15 million to customers for IT failings that resulted in more than 300,000 people either receiving their energy bills late or for the wrong amount.  

MoneySavingExpert.com is warning people across the UK that we are in no way associated with energy cold-callers representing a company called Money Expert.

Age UK has vowed to address concerns around a lack of transparency after the Charity Commission branded its partnership with energy supplier E.on a "conflict of interest".

Hundreds of thousands of people left out of pocket after they were sold Scottish Power cashback warranties between 1998 and 2001 should be paid their share of about £75 million, a group of MPs said today.