Melissa Kite Melissa Kite

My battle with British Gas

British Gas is giving me £66 that I don’t want courtesy of the taxpayer

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issue 29 October 2022

By the time I got through to someone at British Gas to complain about them holding £491 of my money in credit, they were holding £924. This was made up of £858 of my own money plus £66 from the government support scheme, the first instalment of which had just hit my account.

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