{"id":141751,"date":"2020-04-26T15:45:54","date_gmt":"2020-04-26T13:45:54","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/theworldwidejournal.com\/2020\/04\/26\/uk-energy-firms-using-debt-collectors-despite-coronavirus-agreement\/"},"modified":"2020-04-26T15:45:54","modified_gmt":"2020-04-26T13:45:54","slug":"uk-energy-firms-using-debt-collectors-despite-coronavirus-agreement","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/theworldwidejournal.com\/?p=141751","title":{"rendered":"UK energy firms using debt collectors despite coronavirus agreement"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Companies are expected to identify struggling customers and offer them reassuranceCoronavirus \u2013 latest updatesSee all our coronavirus coverageBritain\u2019s energy suppliers are continuing to use debt collectors to chase unpaid bills after promising to help households during the coronavirus pandemic by offering payment plans to struggling customers.Under an agreement with the government, energy suppliers are expected to identify customers who might be in financial distress and offer to reassess, reduce or pause bill payments to help \u201creassure\u201d homes during the coronavirus lockdown. Continue reading&#8230;<br \/>\nVia: <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/business\/2020\/apr\/26\/uk-energy-firms-using-debt-collectors-despite-coronavirus-agreement\" target=\"_blank\">UK energy firms using debt collectors despite coronavirus agreement<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Companies are expected to identify struggling customers and offer them reassuranceCoronavirus \u2013 latest updatesSee all our coronavirus coverageBritain\u2019s energy suppliers are continuing to use debt collectors to chase unpaid bills after promising to help households during the coronavirus pandemic by offering payment plans to struggling customers.Under an agreement with the [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-141751","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-english"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/theworldwidejournal.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/141751","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/theworldwidejournal.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/theworldwidejournal.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/theworldwidejournal.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/theworldwidejournal.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=141751"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/theworldwidejournal.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/141751\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/theworldwidejournal.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=141751"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/theworldwidejournal.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=141751"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/theworldwidejournal.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=141751"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}