The most outrageous energy bills revealed: One customer was sent TWO demands for £8,000... another feared losing his home. Now SALLY SORTS IT reveals how you can fight back
Daily MailIn April 2024, EDF Energy said I owed it £8,000 just for my gas. Last April, it belatedly got your meter correctly 'commissioned' – that is, assigned to EDF under your address and name when you moved in – but its mistake was to then take the readings as if starting from zero, ignoring the previous owner's usage with another provider. Despite this, a £600 demand was later generated to cover February to October 2022 – the period between her son leaving and the overall property finally being closed as a supported living operation. As the last named tenant, her son had been chased for the bill a year ago, but on his mum's intervention the debt collectors accepted he wasn't responsible. This, it said, was due to the management of the accommodation he left informing Eon the lease for the property would be terminated in October 2022 – correct for the whole property, but not for A. M.'s son's tenancy.
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