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I moved into a new property (owned) in December. It had pre-payment meters for gas and electricity with a key and card for top up. I had smart meters installed on May 3 and on May 15 received an email from SSE/OVO advising my final bill had arrived and could I log in and pay it. I have not received a bill and have never used emergency credit on either meter. After two hours of phone calls speaking to six different people, a two day chat in Whatsapp and thirty minutes on hold today  I am no further! They advise I owe £60.27p however no one on any call or message system could confirm how or why I allegedly owe this amount, or whether it is for gas, electricity or a combination of the two. I have not received a bill and no one has been able to send me another copy of it. I was hoping to transfer to being a direct debit customer but I’m not sure about this as you don’t seem to be able to get finance correct when I pay in advance! 

 

Any other pre-payment customers  receive random emails about bills that don’t appear to exist?!

Hi ​@Emma English ,

If you’re on Pay On-Demand, the bill payment is taken from your account balance automatically if there’s enough in there. Otherwise, you’ll be asked to pay the rest - the bill itself will tell you what you need to pay in. However, in this case, it sounds like the bill was auto-paid from the account credit.

If you’re Pay As You Go, you don’t get bills - you literally pay as you use energy which automatically settles the bill on your behalf.

If you’re on Direct Debit, the system figures it out for you provided you keep making your monthly payments.



Does this help ​@Emma English? I’m not sure from the information provided that you are pay as you go?


Check this thread and don’t give up.

 

 

 


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