A GB News viewer has emotionally expressed her fears for freezing this winter, as energy regulator Ofgem prepares to hike bill prices in the new year.
The regulator has confirmed that from January 1, the energy bill price cap will rise by 1.2 per cent.
The increase is coupled with fears felt by 10 million pensioners, who are set to miss out on their winter fuel payments this year.
Speaking to GB News, Briton Janeen Moody revealed that due to her physical health, she needs to be in a “heated home 24/7”, but due to the energy bills hike, her house is currently “like an iceberg”.
Janeen Moody revealed she is ‘confined to her bedroom’ through fears of putting the heating on
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Explaining her condition, Moody told GB News: “I have a lot of mental health issues as well as physical issues, and I need to be in a heated home basically 24/7, because it actually affects my medical condition.
“And so I end up literally just confining myself to the bedroom.”
Highlighting her fears for soaring bills, Moody stated that not having the heating on has “made her condition much worse”, which has in turn had an impact on her mental health.
Moody added: “I don’t put the heating on because of the fear, and I suffer a lot from anxiety and depression. But for me, as well as obviously the fear, it’s literally just made my condition so much worse.
The energy price cap will increase by 1.2 per cent from January 1, Ofgem has confirmed
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“It’s the fear of actually putting the heating on and then not knowing what the bill is going to be, and not being able to afford the bill when it comes in.
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“So I literally just stay in one room with a tiny little electric heater on. The rest of the house is just like an iceberg, literally.”
Moody was overcome with emotion as she stated that “it shouldn’t be like this”, with Britons struggling to heat their homes.
She told GB News: “It shouldn’t be like this, it really shouldn’t. I have worked all my life and paid the taxes – I’m unable to work now, and I’ve actually been on life support five times after taking overdoses. Thankfully, now I am past that.
“For a country that’s supposed to be in the Western world, it’s just terrifying that this is what it’s coming to. And it’s hitting us left, right and centre. I just don’t know what to do.”
Moody praised GB News for helping support her mentally in her struggling times
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Criticising the Labour government, Moody said so far they have been “horrific”, and Britain is only in the “early days of it”.
Moody continued: “I just don’t know what the future looks like, and I suffer. I don’t sleep at night either, so I get maybe two hours sleep and I literally am in the house 24/7 and need the heat.
“I am literally stuck in the house because I suffer from agoraphobia and everything as well.”
Praising GB News for their support for herself and others struggling this winter, Moody concluded: “This channel by the way, is incredible. I’ve been watching it now for 2 or 3 years, and it just helps me mentally, it’s almost like a friend.”