Pompeyexile Chuffin Hell! I just went on-line and have seen that I am over £800 in credit on my gas and electric and I am just about to pay my June direct debit payment, which at the moment stands at - after we lost the £67 government help - £237 per month.
I’ve been 600 or 900 credit for a year, but they finally lowered by DD to £108 from £170, I supposed they finally realised I would simply build up another 350+ onto my current £600 credit remaining after the winter of discontent….pushing it up to almost £1000.
I don’t actually understand why we cannot just be rendered a bill and pay it….one time BT used something called a budget account (a fixed amount every month) for bad payers. Now it seems that we pay more for paying a bill on recpt (if the supplier even offers that option), and even if that bill is automatically paid by DD. The norm now is not a discount AND to pay a fixed amount every month. I would love OFGEM to actually fix this, but they never work on behalf of consumers do they.
Trouble it it’s a price controlled cartel, with no effective competition.
