Emergency Pre-Payment credit

Tlecara

Can anyone tell me if emergency credit is used more quickly?

The reason I ask is that I have had to go into my emergency £5.00 credit this week on Saturday.

Thinking I would have enough credit to last me until my benefits payment goes in on this Friday after a 4 week sanction for a missed appointment (another long story)

But I have just looked at my meter today (Tuesday) and it is now showing £1.13 left.

I unplugged everything on Saturday in the flat and turned off all the switches bar one bedside lamp so I can see at night. I do not have gas, only electric and have not had any heating switched on or the under-sink water heater. I have even turned off the fridge freezer, as there is nothing in it so no point having running.

The only thing I have used is the kettle and toaster once first thing in the morning and once at night.

I am not paying back any debit on the meter have always been in credit.

I tried calling SSE about it and the earliest they can send someone out is next month to look at the meter as I am not classed as an emergency.

Sorry to say I do not have any family or friends to ask to help topping up the meter but more importantly I don't understand why it's using electric so much and when I am in-credit it dose not seem to be using so much money. I know I am probably going to run out of electric before Friday comes along, thank god for library computers.

Any thoughts on whats happening would great.

Carrot007

I thought it was in fact used slower since no standing charges would be taken util you are in real credit. But maybe I imagined that!

£1 a day sounds cheap though to me.

Tlecara

Carrot007 wrote: »

I thought it was in fact used slower since no standing charges would be taken util you are in real credit. But maybe I imagined that!

£1 a day sounds cheap though to me.

I would normally agree that £1 a day is cheap.

But I have not cooked anything since Friday evening, that what took me into the emergency credit.

I don't own a TV, well not since December, like I said the only thing that I have used is the bedside lamp and the toaster and kettle twice a day.

And I am pretty much in the library every day.