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From the times newspaper joined a team of debt collectors, entering the home with three young children. they count as vulnerable. but, these workers from arvato, working for british gas, opened the door and installed a prepayment meter anyway. installing prepayment meters by force is legal, but it's meant to be a last resort, and should not be done to vulnerable households. if people cannot afford to top up the meters, they will be left without power. the boss of british gas has apologised, suspended arvato, and paused forced installations. arvato said it respected and adhered to the rules. th...

Vulnerable households. it comes after an undercover investigation by the times saw debt agents breaking into homes to fit meters. here's our business correspondent, emma simpson. the undercover story of debt collectors breaking into the home of a single father with young kids to fit a prepayment meter. 0fgem has now asked all energy suppliers to hit the pause button on forced installations. but one former boss says the regulator should have acted sooner. it's been brewing for quite a while and i think that anybody in the industry will have seen quite a large increase in the number of prepaymen...

Energy suppliers and the industry trade body said in 2017 that they had concerns whether new proposals from Ofgem were legal.

To fit a prepayment meter. 0fgem has now asked all energy suppliers to hit the pause button on forced installations. but one former boss says the regulator should have acted sooner. it's been brewing for quite a while and i think that anybody in the industry will have seen quite a large increase in the number of prepayment meters that have been installed, and i think that should have set off alert signals at 0fgem, and 0fgem should have required that the companies were making the due processes and the right checks to make sure the customers who were vulnerable were not having prepayment meters...

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