THE prolonged economic downturn has resulted in thousands of families being unable to pay their utility bills and MPs say they are seeing more cases of those who have had their power supply cut off.
Over the last six months, an average of 2,500 households a month in financial difficulties had been allowed to pay in instalments, said SP Services, the utilities bill collector.
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