Energy firms slammed over ‘callous’ rule that can take £9 of every £10 you put on meter – 300,000 people have their pre-payment electricity or gas meter set up to take debts – meaning they might top up by £10, only to have £9 of it diverted to paying back their energy firm
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Why slam them? This is what the country voted for time and time again.
This seems reasonable. Payment should be towards debt first or else it won’t get paid off.
bolivia had a wonderful solution to this when the water companies where trying to extort them.
they “let” people arrange to have their meters bypassed so long as the work wasnt seen. and if the bypass was discovered, the police issued the poor victims of obvious break-in and vandalism advice on securing their houses better and would arrange for the utility to come out at their leisure to correct the tampering.
so sad that the meters where oh so often re-“vandalised” overnight within 12 hours.
Now now, we don’t want those shareholders to miss out on their record dividend payments
Seems entirely reasonable to charge people for historical debts first, especially when energy companies can’t chase you for debts after the 1 year mark. It isn’t like most things where they have 6 years to make a claim.
You can change the repayment amount yourself. Fake news. Oh and this is a story from the mirror.
Nuff said.
If your a electrician who doesn’t mind a bit of doggy cash in hand work, you are going to have one hell of a good Christmas