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Home Essentials price hikes

by callaghankieron in Bills & Packages
‎10-09-2026 17h01
‎10-09-2026 17h01
Last year my Home Essentials increased from £15 to £18, which is a 20% jump. I've just had an email stating it's going up to £21 which is a 16.5% increase. Why these huge percentage increases when n...
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  • If you qualify for the No income plan BT Home Essentials , then call and ask to be put in the a...
  • Thanks for your response. I'm definitely a Home Essentials customer! I signed up 2 years ago i...
  • https://www.bt.com/help/terms-and-conditions/bt-home-essentials-terms-and-conditions-07082026 S...
  • BT Home Essentials doesn’t (shouldn’t) have the annual increase other products have , and those p...
  • Although there are BT Moderators , the  most  often given reply   is they have no cu...

BT Home essentials

by me123 in Bills & Packages
‎13-02-2026 2h42
‎13-02-2026 2h42
Hi! I rang the BT freephone number up on my landline for the no-income home essentials package, part-fibre broadband. I was accepted and ask for my landline to be included, this was on the 12/02/2...
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  • ...ention that it is for the Home Essentials Plan when you do speak to them again, that will make sure t...
  • ...ent didn't match what was discussed on the phone. I asked for the no-income plan, as this is true at t...
  • ...p paying much more than necessary. It's up to the DWP to tell you about home essentials
  • Thank you. I have been with BT for many years, paying about £119 every three months for a call pack...
  • ...onfirmation you received show £16 and state BT Home Essentials, No income plan , so that’s no income at all f...

Universal Credit and Home Essentials

by bobdanbh in Bills & Packages
‎19-05-2026 18h17
‎19-05-2026 18h17
I help a lady on UC and PIP. As she can't manage complicated things I look after and pay for Home Essentials to give her a landline and broadband. I just received an email saying that the current b...
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  • social tariff this is the current home essential costs.  only 2 packages have  calls i...

Applying for BT Home Essentials Broadband

by cjazz in Bills & Packages
‎10-06-2026 19h39
‎10-06-2026 19h39
I’m assisting my son, who is autistic, in applying for the BT Home Essentials broadband service with a speed of 36 Mbps. I’m checking if this can be done online, but it seems you have to be a BT c...
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  • See the attached link and sub links. https://www.bt.com/broadband/home-essentials

Have the Home Essentials prices gone up?

by rangout in Bills & Packages
‎08-05-2026 18h55
‎08-05-2026 18h55
I'm on the Home Essentials package at £15 per month   I got an email back in Jan telling me it was going up to £18, then another mail in Feb saying the prices would remain frozen. I logged o...
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  • Thanks @rangout. It certainly does seem to have gone up. The April one will have a part month inc...

Missold home essentials

by harrison1958 in Bills & Packages
‎10-01-2026 0h12
‎10-01-2026 0h12
Do fpr over a year i have been ob the wrong package and when i sogned up to this service i wasnt given sny choice of what package i should be taking. How do i go about sprting rhis as im on another ...
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  • ...egarding your BT Home Essentials package. I have reached out via private message for more details to s...

Home essentials tarrif

by harrison1958 in Bills & Packages
‎26-07-2025 22h22
‎26-07-2025 22h22
...o up £3 yet I was under the impression this package is excluded from price rises .   Also on the website today july 2025 it states Important information A The monthly price of the Home Essentials...
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  • ...ou reach month 11 of your Home Essentials plan, we’ll contact you to let you know that you’re n...
  • ...rror and corrected the statement that no increases to the social tariff home essentials News and A...

Home essentials

by maxsam in Bills & Packages
‎13-12-2024 15h08
‎13-12-2024 15h08
I have home essentials, it says you can not phone premium numbers, or International numbers, I did phone a premium number and a message cut in saying this is not in your contract and could not get t...
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  • UK mobile numbers in another country are still UK mobile numbers , if you call a UK mobile , you ma...

BT Home Essentials

by atherineca in Bills & Packages
‎04-01-2025 17h22
‎04-01-2025 17h22
Good evening Could someone  tell me if BT still does the BT Home Essentials package for £15 please. 
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  • https://www.bt.com/broadband/home-essentials The monthly price of the Home Essentials package&n...
  • Hi @atherineca   See page 41 of the latest price list from 22nd Nov 2024. It looks l...

BT BROADBAND ESSENTIALS

by huong2603 in Bills & Packages
‎27-08-2026 18h35
‎27-08-2026 18h35
Hi, I'm currently on an EE broadband contract. My mum receives Universal Credit, so I wanted to change it to her name and to over to a social tariff (BT Home Essentials / EE Basics) to lower the m...
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  • Only you can decide that. It will cost you the amount you pay per month till the end of your contr...
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