23.11.2023
Fair By Design responds to Ofgem’s consultation on additional debt related costs
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25.10.2023
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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18.10.2023
Fair By Design responds to Ofgem’s new customer services standards for energy suppliers
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03.10.2023
News Story: Fair by Design responds to Ofgem’s consultation on levelling the cost of standing charges on prepayment meters
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28.09.2023
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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02.08.2023
News Story: Fair By Design responds to the strategy and policy statement for energy policy in Great Britain by DESNZ
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24.07.2023
Statement: Fair By Design calls on Government to fulfil its promise to consult on targeted energy price support
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20.07.2023
Press Release: Government must switch on to help vulnerable energy customers this winter
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13.06.2023
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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05.06.2023
News story: How inclusive design can make the transition to net zero fair for low income consumers
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01.06.2023
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.
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25.05.2023
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
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18.05.2023
News story: Fair By Design responds to Ofgem’s consultation on levelisation of payment method cost differentials
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18.04.2023
Fair By Design statement: Publication of Ofgem’s Code of Practice on involuntary PPM installations
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28.03.2023
Press Release Finance Innovation Lab: Public wants politicians to act now on ‘unfair’ bank services
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13.03.2023
Press Release: Priced out – Poor people giving up insurance due to ‘poverty premium’
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10.02.2023
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.
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17.01.2023
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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11.07.2022
Blog: How a new social tariff in the energy market would lower the cost of bills for low income households.
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22.06.2022
Press Release: New research shows local economies losing £4.5 million a year to the poverty premium.
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16.06.2022
Now the government must act, Fair By Design responds to the Treasury Select Committee’s report into the future of financial services regulation
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27.04.2022
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.
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12.04.2022
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
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04.03.2022
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
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25.09.2021
Priced out and left out: New Fair By Design report on the insurance poverty premium
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01.07.2021
New research to look at increasing the financial inclusion of racially minoritised communities
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23.02.2021
New research: People with certain protected characteristics more likely to pay a poverty premium
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20.11.2020
New report: Low income consumers pay a poverty premium equivalent to three months’ worth of food
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22.06.2020
Watch now: How can organisations support their employees’ financial resilience?
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29.05.2020
Carl Packman discusses payment holidays for 1.5m consumers struggling because of coronavirus
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25.02.2020
Fair By Design launch new joint report calling for extension and expansion of Warm Home Discount scheme
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15.01.2020
Low income households experience biggest rise in consumer credit debt over last 10 years
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09.01.2020
Fair By Design chosen as one of The Big Issue’s ‘Top 100 Changemakers’ in 2020
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01.02.2019
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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01.02.2019
Fair By Design Ambassador talks to The Sun about living with the Poverty Premium
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