Alternative fuel payment British Gas

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I have received a £200 credit in my British Gas energy account this morning as expected as I use oil and wood to heat my house. They have just confirmed that they will not be transferring to my bank even though I am a direct debit customer and that instead this credit will be used against future energy costs. I am assuming they will be doing this with all qualifying customers? This seems wrong on so many levels, apart from the obvious point about it not being available for the consumer to use use to buy alternative fuel. I am in credit already so there is no justification for holding it in their account until at some point in the future it can be offset against electricity costs. Other companies are passing this payment on to the customer - any thoughts on how to get this money from British Gas?
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The point is it is a bung from the government, it is not really meant for anything specific as such, just another handout, despite the name.
It depends where in the billing cycle you are, if you are on quarterly or six month billing your account will almost always appear in credit until they apply the costs at the end of the billing period.
Some are, some are not, others are requiring a bill be generated to see if the account is actually in credit first, there is no one implementation.
I'm with BG and my address is on the 'off-gas' s/s, but I've neither had an email or seen a credit to my account as of this morning.
Is anyone else in the same position?
That's strange, then, as my postcode is definitely on the 'no gas' spreadsheet. That is likely to be correct as to my almost certain knowledge none of my 'neighbours' have mains gas.
However, when I searched for my postcode on the link to the census data that has been posted on a similar thread the extent of the postcode on the accompanying map was much larger than my 'actual' postcode and contained a number of houses on a nearby street that does have mains gas connectivity.
I think the census data made reference to an 'OA' that is apparently the smallest 'unit' that could be shown, so I suppose it will come down to whether BG are using the spreadsheet, the census data or a combination of the two (or something else).
I'll wait until the end of the month and see whether the AFP materialises in my account.
Thanks to all for the help.