Get E-on to send them a bill for a few thousand of electricity they don't owe
(Absolute f£&*ing scum)
https://www.theguardian.com/money/20...bill-error-eon
A 76-year-old widower was forced to ration his electricity for a year and rely on charity food handouts after a clerical error by his supplier left him facing a bill of nearly £13,000.
John*, who has a serious heart condition, has paid in advance for his electricity via a prepayment meter for 10 years. However, his supplier, E.ON, began sending unexplained bills several years ago and subsequently threatened court action if he failed to pay. It also withheld his £400 energy bill support scheme payment from the government to help with last winter’s heating bills.
The retired joiner, who relies on a basic state pension, considered ending his life because of the stress, according to his family. He stopped heating his house or cooking food as the bills escalated, fearing his supply would be cut off, and was referred to a food charity by concerned health workers. Only after the Guardian’s intervention did E.ON discover that it was charging him for readings from an unrelated meter. It has now cancelled the bills.
“My dad became a recluse and stopped answering the door or the phone in case it was debt collectors,” said his son Ian*. “He was too ashamed to tell family of the ‘debt’, and gradually he stopped going out to save money. We couldn’t understand why, in the coldest part of last winter, he refused to turn his heating on, and why he stopped cooking meals, despite having been hospitalised for his heart condition.”
(Absolute f£&*ing scum)
https://www.theguardian.com/money/20...bill-error-eon
A 76-year-old widower was forced to ration his electricity for a year and rely on charity food handouts after a clerical error by his supplier left him facing a bill of nearly £13,000.
John*, who has a serious heart condition, has paid in advance for his electricity via a prepayment meter for 10 years. However, his supplier, E.ON, began sending unexplained bills several years ago and subsequently threatened court action if he failed to pay. It also withheld his £400 energy bill support scheme payment from the government to help with last winter’s heating bills.
The retired joiner, who relies on a basic state pension, considered ending his life because of the stress, according to his family. He stopped heating his house or cooking food as the bills escalated, fearing his supply would be cut off, and was referred to a food charity by concerned health workers. Only after the Guardian’s intervention did E.ON discover that it was charging him for readings from an unrelated meter. It has now cancelled the bills.
“My dad became a recluse and stopped answering the door or the phone in case it was debt collectors,” said his son Ian*. “He was too ashamed to tell family of the ‘debt’, and gradually he stopped going out to save money. We couldn’t understand why, in the coldest part of last winter, he refused to turn his heating on, and why he stopped cooking meals, despite having been hospitalised for his heart condition.”
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