%T Cut off III: the social impact of utility disconnection
%A Alison Wallace
%A Lee Holloway


%I Public Interest Advocacy Centre
%D 2013

%K Social isolation, %K Poverty, %K Cost and standard of living, %K Debt, %K Power resources



%U https://apo.org.au/node/33645

%X This paper analyses the circumstances that led to people being disconnected from utilities, the impacts of disconnection, and how people manage to finance reconnection. It is based on 171 surveys and four interviews with consumers disconnected in the second half of 2012.  Findings are compared with Cut Off survey results from 2004 and 2008, noting a number of significant changes over the past eight years.
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