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Please can somebody help???

 

I have a pre payment meter for my Gas & Electricity (I put money on a card that goes into the meter)... I have now been told that there is a fault on my gas meter and I now owe them >£1000. icon_surprised.gif

 

They have not read my meter in more than a year and so this fault has been there since at least August 2005 when the meter was replaced.

 

As they haven't read my meter I have received no account statements either - surely they should send statements regularly? Does anybody know what is the minimum frequency for meter reading??? Do they have a duty of care to keep you informed of your account etc.?

 

They have said that I need to repay this but can't afford to pay it all in one go!

 

Any advice...

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Thanks for the advice... can they cut me off in the mean time?

Or file a CCJ for the monies??? - just spent the last year cleaning up my credit file and don't want to jeopardise this as looking to buy a house in the next 6 months or so.

 

Surely, a pre-payment means you pay before you can use and a faulty meter is their fault and not mine?

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I switched from BG to NPower a couple of years ago for both gas and leccy and received a combined bill for over 700 quid!

 

I queried this as i was prepay on meters and couldn't fathom as to why i had ran up such a debt. Without argument i got a response explaining it was there fault for not updating the meters and they wiped the debt off and compensated me £25.

 

Don't threaten them with nasty letters but do write to them and explain your situation. It worked for me.

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