On Fri, 01 Nov 2013 08:42:48 -0000, Brian Gaff wrote:

Well, from what I can gather, they seem to be saying that through the warm
periods you are owed some money, b and will refund the overpay, but as the
cost has gone up and its the cold part of the year, based on what you were
paying before y ou need to pay more.
I agree its pretty daft in that they could just keep the overpay and put it
toward the cold higher priced bills, but I suspect they want to appear to be
being fair.
I'm waiting to see what happens to my bills when the Blue tarrif runs out.
Brian

The whole point of a direct debit scheme is I pay the same through the whole year. So cold and warm weather should be irrelevant.

I know I'm using less than the same time last year, enough less that despite the increased unit cost, I have consumed less value of elec/gas than the same time last year (they show graphs to tell you on the bill).

I can see that over the last two years the amount of money I owe them has reduced a lot from 600 quid to 100 quid. So they're actually refunding me despite me still owing them money. Presumably they've worked out that at the current rate of money I'm paying each month I will end up going into credit shortly. If so why have they increased my monthly payment?

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