23.02.2024
Fair By Design statement: prepayment meter announcement is a big win, but we need action on standard credit sooner
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We respond to ESNZ Committee’s call for evidence: Energy bills for domestic customers
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Press Release: New Age UK analysis shows an energy social tariff would have lifted 2.2 million households out of fuel poverty this winter
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Fair By Design statement: We welcome the Labour Party’s plan to create national financial inclusion strategy
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Blog: Car insurance poverty premium costs people in poverty hundreds of pounds – it’s time for action
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News Story: We respond to Ofgem’s consultation on changes to standing charges and other debt costs
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News Story: Fair By Design responds to Ofgem’s consultation on additional debt related costs
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Fair By Design one of 13 organisations calling on the Chancellor to introduce an energy ‘Help to Repay’ scheme at the Autumn Statement
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News Story: Fair By Design responds to Ofgem’s new customer services standards for energy suppliers
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News Story: Fair by Design responds to Ofgem’s consultation on levelling the cost of standing charges on prepayment meters
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Press Release: Fair By Design one of Coalition of over 140 organisations and MPs calling for a consultation on a social tariff for energy
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News Story: Fair By Design responds to the strategy and policy statement for energy policy in Great Britain by DESNZ
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Statement: Fair By Design calls on Government to fulfil its promise to consult on targeted energy price support
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Press Release: Government must switch on to help vulnerable energy customers this winter
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News story: Fair By Design joins charities writing to Grant Shapps MP calling for a ‘Help to Repay’ scheme to support people struggling with energy debt
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News story: How inclusive design can make the transition to net zero fair for low income consumers
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News story: Fair By Design joins the Trussell Trust & Joseph Rowntree Foundation ‘Guarantee our Essentials’ campaign
Losing your job, needing to care for a sick family member, breaking up with your partner – everyone’s circumstances can change. When they do, the social security system should ensure no one goes without the essentials - but it doesn't.
Find Out More25.05.2023
Blog: A reduction in energy bills is welcome – but low-income consumers’ distrust in the energy market remains the biggest challenge
Trust in the energy market needs to be rebuilt. A good place to start would be ending the premium for different payment methods in energy
Find Out More18.05.2023
News story: Fair By Design responds to Ofgem’s consultation on levelisation of payment method cost differentials
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Fair By Design statement: Publication of Ofgem’s Code of Practice on involuntary PPM installations
Find Out More28.03.2023
Press Release: Finance Innovation Lab: Public wants politicians to act now on ‘unfair’ bank services
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Press Release: Priced out – Poor people giving up insurance due to ‘poverty premium’
Find Out More10.02.2023
Fair By Design join Martin Lewis in calling for the energy price guarantee to continue at £2,500 after April
We are working with MoneySavingExpert founder Martin Lewis to ensure the energy price guarantee remains at £2,500 a year.
Find Out More17.01.2023
Press Release: Fair By Design one of over 90 Charities and non-profit organisations calling on the Chancellor to introduce discounted energy bills for low-income households
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Blog: How a new social tariff in the energy market would lower the cost of bills for low income households.
Find Out More22.06.2022
Press Release: New research shows local economies losing £4.5 million a year to the poverty premium.
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Now the government must act, Fair By Design responds to the Treasury Select Committee’s report into the future of financial services regulation
Find Out More27.04.2022
Press Release: Columbia Threadneedle Foundation partners with Fair By Design to address barriers to financial inclusion
Research project will explore root causes of the poverty premium in insurance, an under-recognised factor in financial vulnerability. It aims to address systemic barriers to insurance, helping increase economic security and financial resilience among the UK’s poorest.
Find Out More12.04.2022
Fair By Design responds to The Government Warm Home Discount: Better targeted support from 2022 consultation
Fair By Design is happy to see the changes made to support more low-incomes consumers, but we want to highlight that more can be done to support those using the Warm Home Discount
Find Out More04.03.2022
Emma Hardy MP Presses Ministers to end the poverty premium
Fair By Design featured as part of the Treasury Select Committee inquiry on the Future of Financial Services
Find Out More25.09.2021
Priced out and left out: New Fair By Design report on the insurance poverty premium
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New research to look at increasing the financial inclusion of racially minoritised communities
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New research: People with certain protected characteristics more likely to pay a poverty premium
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New report: Low income consumers pay a poverty premium equivalent to three months’ worth of food
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Watch now: How can organisations support their employees’ financial resilience?
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Carl Packman discusses payment holidays for 1.5m consumers struggling because of coronavirus
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Fair By Design launch new joint report calling for extension and expansion of Warm Home Discount scheme
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Low income households experience biggest rise in consumer credit debt over last 10 years
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Fair By Design chosen as one of The Big Issue’s ‘Top 100 Changemakers’ in 2020
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Fair By Design helps to shape The Sun’s campaign on Universal Credit
Fair By Design helped shape the Sun’s new Universal Credit campaign, with a particular focus on its Poverty Premium aspects, where waiting for Universal Credit for weeks put great financial strain on families, increasing the need to go to high cost lenders. Watch the video.
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