I must say I’m not very happy with these so called smart pay as you go meters.. my elderly and vulnerable parents had one of these fitted recently and went to see them on Tuesday and they had no electric (luckily it was only an hour and they knew I was coming) but they have a care line which stopped working so that’s dangerous but I checked the app on my phone as I’m power of attorney for them so I keep track of everything and it was showing still £43 in it??? I phoned up was told that the balance was actually zero! So I topped up again while on the phone then had to be talked through how to get the meter working again!! There is nowhere on the screen that tells you the balance in there but even if it did it’s so complicated and high up my parents couldn’t use it themselves anyway…. There should be some kind of simple to use meter… it’s now Friday and topping it up 3 more times it’s still showing they have £43 in the meter and last updated 1/1/24 ????? Can anyone tell me if they have this problem
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Best answer by Blastoise186
Updated on 14/11/24 by Shads_OVO
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The In-Home Display supplied with the meter will provide an easier and safer way to check the meter balance and apply manual top-up codes. If your parents didn’t get one, please let Support know. The meter itself also provides these functions. The app will also provide UTRN codes for each top-up that you can immediately punch into the meter or IHD if you want to speed up the transfer - you will never get in trouble for doing this, as OVO fully permits it and the meter will automatically figure out how to handle having the same code twice by only accepting it once. The automatic transfer usually completes within 40 minutes though.
However, with that being said it is my view that Prepayment/Pay As You Go is NOT suitable nor appropriate for the circumstances you’ve described. If you haven’t already, I would strongly recommend you sign your parents up for the Priority Services Register - especially due to that careline, age and their vulnerabilities - and I would strongly recommend moving them to Pay Monthly. They’ll still only pay for what they actually use, but without the risk of being randomly cut-off and would never have to touch the meter.
I wouldn’t want them to risk a fall, so this is also a significant factor I considered when giving this advice.
Finally, I’m also a Fire Service Volunteer, for which I’ve verified my status with the Forum Moderators. I think it’s in everyone’s best interests that I give you one more thing that may help, for which the Forum Moderators have given me permission to do. This isn’t an OVO sponsored or endorsed thing and neither myself nor OVO gets any commission or kickback from it, but it helps all the same. But it is something I do recommend when I feel it might be a good idea.
All Fire Services across the UK offer free Home Fire Safety Visits - free for the visit itself, free for any and all advice given and free for any and ALL equipment provided - and I think your parents would certainly benefit from one. We want them to feel safe at home, which is one of the biggest reasons all this stuff is done completely free of charge. If that sounds good to you, the online tool to request one is https://www.safelincs.co.uk/hfsc or you can alternatively give the fire service in your area a call and they’ll set one up for you that way.
The Fire Service can also use this opportunity to update their records with anything that might make incident response easier, such as (with your consent) securely recording any keybox codes on their system which would allow them to get in without breaking the door down and mean they can just lock the door up when they’re done and put the key back. They can discuss all of this with you and your parents during the visit.
I hope this helps. If you’ve got any other questions, please reply to this thread and I’ll swing by again in the morning.
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