Electricity and eviction

chenille

New here and hope this is in the right place but hope somebody here can help me. Can you be thrown out of a rental property / letting agent for non payment of electricity ?
Have contacted the electricity company numerous times and even asked for a meter to be installed and they kept assuring me this would be done but never was.
Now some-one from the letting agent has turned up to take a meter reading then went.
I've just been made redundant but rent is up to date and not in arrears. Just wondered where I stand on this.

RAS

Is the electricity bill in your name? Or the agencies?

molerat

No, the paying of energy bills is between you and the supplier. It sounds like they might be be trying to bump your account to someone like Spark who give a kickback to the agent, watch out for letters in the post. Which energy company are you trying to set your account up with ?

chenille

It's supposed to be with e-on but haven't paid since moving in (this is over 2 years this has been going on), like a meter installed but now afraid I'm going to get evicted.

tripled

Provided you have been making reasonable efforts to register and resolve the issue, you shouldn't be back-billed more than 12 months.

http://www.consumerfocus.org.uk/files/2010/01/Back-billing-leaflet-2012.pdf

chenille

Not for the want of trying, I can't physically drag them round to the property to show them the meter; I wouldn't mind paying excess via a meter but it's like it didn't exist up until today.

Guest101

chenille wrote: »

Not for the want of trying, I can't physically drag them round to the property to show them the meter; I wouldn't mind paying excess via a meter but it's like it didn't exist up until today.

You mean u want a payment card meter I'm guessing?

FR_262

If there's a meter then somebody must be paying (or not paying) the bill. The LA wouldn't know whether you've paid your bill or not unless somebody told them. I'd take the matter up with the LA.

chenille

Yes, would love a payment card meter then it would solve this dilemma

bouicca21

Well two years of non-payment may sound unbelievable to some, but not to me - it took me a year of prodding to get EDF to acknowledge my existence and send me a bill.

chenille

Don't know if this has coincided with my redundancy but it looks like e-on have contacted my letting agent about the meter and all hell has broken loose.
As stated, a payment meter would be an answer to my prayers but can the letting agent evict me as this would be a nightmare.