{"id":319968,"date":"2026-02-27T11:18:08","date_gmt":"2026-02-27T11:18:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/319968\/"},"modified":"2026-02-27T11:18:08","modified_gmt":"2026-02-27T11:18:08","slug":"almost-320000-households-behind-on-energy-bills-as-arrears-hit-record-high-the-journal","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/319968\/","title":{"rendered":"Almost 320,000 households behind on energy bills as arrears hit record high &#8211; The Journal"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"https:\/\/news.google.com\/rss\/articles\/CBMihgFBVV95cUxPRkpZOVRjd1hQNHdSS2tqdlRIUHRScWVsWUZROEhkVkFTaUpEejhSOEUwaFp6LVBsQVFSR1l2VS1oVWpNVEs2dGkyZEw4OV9NWW43Z21OZTl2UnZDczRKTWVvZnFTNlFFeGpkak90THBmVU1Sck85R3BmOGk5MnJEX2U0MTZsZw?oc=5\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">Almost 320,000 households behind on energy bills as arrears hit record high<\/a>&nbsp;&nbsp;The Journal<a href=\"https:\/\/news.google.com\/rss\/articles\/CBMif0FVX3lxTFBUQkdSRXIyNzNYelR0amNmYjhiWGxrT3JwLUdOUnlTNEVzWmZia2lXdXBvblA4Q3p6NVdsSmVoa2RQMmljejRZTUZOU3dfQnRuRklPa3p6cUtMekZqTkJ1X1hRYnVBU0FFbXhVSUg5Z2taMTJpOHJ0MnBTVDVneE0?oc=5\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">&#8216;Constant worry&#8217;: The human cost of high energy bills<\/a>&nbsp;&nbsp;RTE.ie<a href=\"https:\/\/news.google.com\/rss\/articles\/CBMisAFBVV95cUxPMGRtQVoyRmdTdGtHVWtZbm1BeHE1VlZfdmNuV3RlTFM0cVJVbFVQZzN2QU5SZGVxRDRPUFBYSFN2dHdyYWpKTHBXc09ZbVVHem9fT1dBcjlnOXRPWmlFSGJ6MjdTc01IMkMzUWdLc19jTjhLU0FQU1VpY3VSX0JSMkpCYklReTJaekt5MzAyaXN3S1NSWWFxTEVMcEh4bEg0eWZDLTYzR3VyV2laX0tlTQ?oc=5\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">Almost 320,000 customers unable to pay energy bills last December<\/a>&nbsp;&nbsp;The Irish Times<a href=\"https:\/\/news.google.com\/rss\/articles\/CBMiwgFBVV95cUxPU2I3SlJMU3NqMmtmMENwUkZNbnF2N2dVQnFyczZHaWIzMi0tTTh1UVBiSS1uck40QXlHMV93YkltdHQyT0EtdWptem53UVNWeW9WUXNuZ1htUFdyTWpxMkxjSEc1WV9oYWVPLUJmXzR5TV9sbkRWY2haSE5CNFp2ZlNPenV0czBpQ3dyXy0yUHBiTkJmVTUxX3MzdFQ5Rl9pNjJYSkF3b2o0S3FjRzJHTFJ4WHJLd3Vsc01iY081eXZUQQ?oc=5\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">Nearly 320,000 homes in arrears on their electricity bill at the end of 2025<\/a>&nbsp;&nbsp;BreakingNews.ie<a href=\"https:\/\/news.google.com\/rss\/articles\/CBMigAFBVV95cUxQM3QyWno3UzlqV0kzNEJKYTZNNVFsV3o2ZkVwZW1lMW9GSmpwZnlMb1V6VVRzUzZMMGZObTVWUWFCNV9HemhKUGMtVE5kbjhTc3UxWWtCU19wTU04RktocGdxU2liZjJ3NWgxTWh5QUNNN09lQWo5eHJpbThvR0tBcw?oc=5\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">Rise in households in electricity arrears<\/a>&nbsp;&nbsp;Midwest Radio<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Almost 320,000 households behind on energy bills as arrears hit record high&nbsp;&nbsp;The Journal&#8216;Constant worry&#8217;: The human cost of&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":319969,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5],"tags":[148975,25200,72,2036,42614,5485,12614,61,60],"class_list":["post-319968","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-business","tag-arrears","tag-bills","tag-business","tag-electricity","tag-energy-bills","tag-energy-costs","tag-gas","tag-ie","tag-ireland"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/319968","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=319968"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/319968\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/319969"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=319968"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=319968"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=319968"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}