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looking totally bewildered. Face Palm. Absolute
Face-palm. How can these people sleep at night?
14 February 2016
So I’ve heard that E-On (who I despise for my own,
personal reasons) - the electricity provider entered into an
arrangement with "Age UK (this used to be "Help the
Aged" and "Age Concern" but they merged and formed
Age UK) E-On donated money to Age UK and in return
Age UK recommends E-On to their service users -
namely the elderly - in particular vulnerable elderly
people. Elderly and vulnerable people have assumed that
Age UK will be recommending the cheapest & best
electric supplier to them and going with E-On on the
basis that they are recommended by Age UK but this is
far from the case - they are nowhere near the cheapest
and certainly not the best in terms of service so
thousands of vulnerable, elderly people have been left
paying over the odds, getting into financial difficulty and
being treated poorly by an overpriced, substandard
energy supplier, not to mention becoming ill through lack
of heating and hot water.... what do you think about this?
Should we just be grateful for the money donated or is it
a very cynical ploy on E-On’s part? Should Age UK be
vetting their funders more carefully? And certainly vetting
who they recommend more carefully? Aren’t charitable
organisations main aim’s to empower and protect the
people they represent? (In this case the elderly) or is their
main concern to raise money? Do you think this is fine?
Or do you think this is wrong? If you think it’s wrong,
you can sign the petition to refund the vulnerable older
people affected