Calls for energy firms not to force people on to prepayment meters

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The Business and Energy Secretary has written to energy suppliers, telling them to stop forcing vulnerable customers to fit prepayment meters.

It comes as an increasing number of families across the UK struggle to pay their bills and fall under the fuel poverty line.

Sky News’ Becky Johnson reports from Birmingham.

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