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  • Floss
    Floss Posts: 9,119 Forumite
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    It IS slightly cheaper, but that can be outweighed if you have to juggle money like so many of us do.

    When I was off work for 3 months last summer with SSP only, I went onto weekly payments for gas leccy & water - it was easier to budget & the companies were all ok with it as it was a short-term situation until I went back to work in September. Now i'm playing catch-up!
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  • jonnydoe
    jonnydoe Posts: 253 Forumite
    Use quidco or another referral site and keep switching energy companies :) I've got through powergen scottish power and npower so far with cashback, hope this helps.. (btw its v easy to switch)
  • kickingkay
    kickingkay Posts: 314 Forumite
    hi it wouldnt be powergen by any chance?
    we changed our suppliers last yr to them and had a refund from previous suppliers! now powergen said the estimated dd were to low and ours have risen from 25 to 89 for electric and 40 to 58 for gas
    im dumbfounded and very annoyed i shall not be doing that again in a hurry even though we said we wanted to pay more they were insistant on that amount for opening payments
    LIGHT BULB MOMENT, JUST IN THE NICK OF TIME!

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    DEBT MAY 2007 £40000 :eek:
  • Broken_hearted
    Broken_hearted Posts: 9,553 Forumite
    Nope its npower agree that its so anoying they think they know best then totaly screw up your account.
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