Should I increase my meter readin now, to use up credit balance of nearly £200?

snowman9

I am a low user in a small flat, British Gas reassessed me last year to £23 per month, I was already in credit then and now at £200. I have an email prepared for them to ask if I can basically convert my credit balance into used units to go against future bills. Do I need their permission to increase my reading :money:now?

Wywth

snowman9 wrote: »

I am a low user in a small flat, British Gas reassessed me last year to £23 per month, I was already in credit then and now at £200. I have an email prepared for them to ask if I can basically convert my credit balance into used units to go against future bills. Do I need their permission to increase my reading :money:now?

You can give the supplier your current meter reading any time you wish. This will help them bill you more accuately, especially if they do not obtain a meter reading at the time a bill is created.

This site is not the place to obtain advice on fraudulent activity if you propose giving a false meter reading to the supplier.

JimmyTheWig

snowman9 wrote: »

I am a low user in a small flat, British Gas reassessed me last year to £23 per month, I was already in credit then and now at £200. I have an email prepared for them to ask if I can basically convert my credit balance into used units to go against future bills. Do I need their permission to increase my reading :money:now?

I don't understand the question.
If you do nothing then a credit balance will be used against future bills.

Ah, hold on. Are you saying you want to use your £200 credit to buy energy at today's prices and then use that energy after the price has gone up?
I don't think they'll let you. But you could always ask them.
To (deliberately) give a false meter reading would be fraudulent. Chances are they'd find out one way or another. I am sure that the reprocussions of this would far out-weigh any savings you made.

Obviously you could switch suppliers if you can get your energy cheaper elsewhere. At which point you'd get your £200 credit from British gas back as cash.

snowman9

Thank you for your replies, This is what I was getting at was it legal?? now I know. But I will put forward the proposal to British Gas, that they are holding my cash for several years (no I didnt ask for a refund, I wasn't too bothered, but with the increases in the pipleine...it came to me)then perhaps they would like to use the money to buy me future credit units!

spiro

If you did what you suggest, which you cant, they would then think 'oh he is using £200 more in a quarter than before we had better put his DD up by £70pm' and you wont be able to get them to reduce it without admitting your fraud.

undaunted

Why don't you just ask for your credit back & a lower DD payment?

JimmyTheWig

Because he's hoping for cheap electricity...