N Power

Alison18

I moved into a house with my partner 2 years ago. The electric was with N Power and I kept phoning them to tell them that I was living there and they just ignored me. Anyway about a year later i had a nice bill of £1000 for electric and they put in a pre payment meter. I then moved house and notified N Power and 6 months later im still waiting for my pre payment meter. Im now £1700 in debt with them. I received a letter of them the other day and I noticed that they have spelt my surname wrong. Am I still liable for this bill because of this mistake. Im moving house again this week and want a new electric supplier. If I was to change suppliers would I still be able to pay the N Power debt of in instalments?

Premier_2

Ostrich syndrome?

Your debts won't magically disappear; you used the energy and you have to pay for it.

Suppliers can back bill for up to 1 year without any restriction.

It's unlikely nPower will allow you to change supplier with an existing debt with them

Alison18

Who said I was trying to do a runner from them? It was a simple question I was just wondering if I was still liable for it because it was in a different name and if I paid it can they try and get the money in my name spelt correctly as well. If you read my post properly I asked if anyone knew if I could switch suppliers and be able to PAY my debt off in instalments. So as for Ostrich Syndrome I think not.

PNPSUKNET

They are most likely to sell the debt to scottcall / bcw to hound you and they can then do what they like inc get a ccj via the courts. Your name will be classed as an alias

foxgloves

When my partner & I moved into this house 6 years ago, we got into a protracted mess with electricity suppliers because we'd arranged to take our own supplier with us, but the changeover didn't happen (they unhelpfully didn't tell us, for which I later got a bit of compensation) because the previous owner of the house had basically done a runner owing another supplier over £3,000. We received letter after letter from the company owed the money, I made loads of phonecalls (all at my expense), wrote extremely assertive letters giving proof that we were the new owners & was still getting endless cards & calls from debt collection agencies nearly two years later. All I could tell them was that this person used 2 names, and the region she had moved to. So from our experience, I think I'd say that these companies don't give up without a massive effort to get their money & fair enough if they are owed it.