I have used uswitch in the past I can tell you its only for people with money you have to pay off your bill so if you pay monthly you could as I did have to find £100 and the ones I switched to I had to pay a months bill before they would put me on a monthly bill never again its ok if you have £200 to spend but if you are already hard up this does not help and I dont think you should be telling people they can save money unless you are going to tell them about the pit falls Ray

I 'Switched with Which?' to my current supplier some 18 months ago and had a similar experience to Ray. The object of the operation was to ease my current financial situation by reducing my monthly outgoings on a permanent basis so I switched to save perhaps £20 pcm. only find that: (1) I had to pay off £200 arrears (that I wasn't aware of) with the old supplier and (2) the new supplier put up their rates to beyond what I had been paying after a few months (on the excuse of rising energy prices-we'll never find out what excuse they'd have come up with if that little serundipity hadn't happened to come along whan it did). So all I achieved was a £200 instant worsening of my current financial position . . . Now I have tried 'uswitch' they claim I can save nearly £20 pcm. by 'switching' to my existing supplier!!! What is going on??? The energy suppliers are taking us for a very expensive ride courtesy of dodgy software that purports to be trying to help us. Are these schemes funded behind the scenes by the energy companies??? Do they target recent switchers with their latest price rises on the assumption that because thay have made a saving they must be able to pay more??? Is the software too simple? Perhaps it simply makes you a number of offers of up to £20 pcm. cheaper to simulate an investigation that hasn't taken place and the companies wear it in the knowledge that they will soon recover it and have an extra customer to boot??? It all looks rather pointless, if not downright suspicious.
Is there anyone 'out there' who has made a genuine, long term saving by switching supplier?
Depleted Paul.

Why is it always the tax payer who picks up the tab for people who cannot manage their financial affairs. I bet a great number of those in the so-called 'fuel poverty trap' have got Sky TV, cars, DVD players, eat convenience food, throw a lot away and so on and so on. Put a jumper on!
It is criminal that these big energy companies are allowed to make such big profits through charging the customers high rates and then when the crunch comes the ordinary paying man in the street have to pick up the difference.