Bailiffs forcibly entered a student home and installed a pre-payment energy meter after accommodation firm UniHomes seemingly failed to pass on the household’s payments to the energy supplier, openDemocracy can reveal.
UniHomes, a Sheffield-based platform that works with partner letting agents across 36 UK cities, offers simplified packages in which students’ rent, energy and Wi-Fi bills are rolled into one fixed-price payment.
But students at several different universities have told openDemocracy that they’ve been threatened by bailiffs, debt collectors and energy companies – despite having paid their bills to Unihomes.
