How many people can’t afford to pay their utility bills?
I refer to allsingaporestuff’s facebook (Oct 17) (“Who said Singaporeans are all rich?”) sharing of Gilbert Goh’s post ”
Hi Mr Goh Gilbert
I really need your help urgently as I didn’t want the SP to cut my power supply and also the water flow will be reduced.
I have 3 kids age 8 yrs, 6 yrs and 5 yrs old. And also my house cooking gas just finish and quite worry as how to cook if I got no gas…I will have to wait for my husband’s pay towards month end.
Hope you can help me.
Miya
Editor’s note: if you want to help the needy family please pay the SP bill at the nearest AXS machine or you can do it online quoting the account number on the bill. Any amount is fine thanks.
“13,700 PAYUs?“As of June this year, about 13,700 households have been put on a pre-paid metering scheme (PAYU) after they had their power supply cut off or were in danger of having the supply disconnected (“More unable to pay electricity bills”, ST, Aug 29, 2008).
Social workers have also said that surprisingly, there has been a 35 percent increase in 4 and 5-room HDB households, who are unable to pay their electricity bills.
This brings up the question as to whether the U-Save Rebate for utilities are enough to offset the rising inflation of electricity tariffs and bills.
I would think that most households may try very hard to pay their electricity bills first, over other outstanding bills, as I cannot imagine what life may be like when one’s electricity is cut-off.
It was last reported in the media in 2006 that the number of accounts in arrears exceeding $ 500 for three months and longer is about 3,600, against about 10,000 reported in the media in 2005.
So, why has the number of Pay-As-You-Use (PAYU) meters increased to 13,700 ? (“HDB and power companies – what’s happening?“, Oct 1, 2008)”
So, how many people can’t afford to pay their utility bills?
Leong Sze Hian
