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British Gas tried to up my DD for Electricity by £60pm, when I am on a fixed rate till March and have a long history of very stable consumption.   I just moved to this rate and have worked out the rise should only have been £13pm.   When on the phone to sort it out (online system won't let you make the payment smaller than the recommended amount), the guy admitted their system doesn't take the governments £400 from October into account.  If this is the case they are going to be raking in millions in over payments !!!

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  • macman
    macman Posts: 53,129 Forumite
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    I don't blame them, because if they have to credit every monthly bill by £66 before they get the subsidy back from the gov't, it's going to knock a huge hole in their cashflow over the winter.
    No free lunch, and no free laptop ;)
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