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Customers have reported overdue bills and long waits to get through to staff by phone, who then appear powerless to resolve basic problems. Continue reading&#8230;&#013;<br \/>\n&#013;<br \/>\nSource : theguardian.com&#013;<br \/>\nRead more&#8230;<a href=\"http:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/money\/2014\/nov\/14\/scottish-power-fine-sales-operation-suspended-ofgem\" target=\"_blank\">Scottish Power faces fine and warning sales operation could be suspended<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>&#013; Ofgem launches investigation into company, which has had disastrous 11 months since introduction of new&#46;&#46;&#46;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"false","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"spay_email":"","footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_is_tweetstorm":false,"jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-11412","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-property-news"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p75ss1-2Y4","jetpack-related-posts":[{"id":27897,"url":"https:\/\/www.siamlandbank.com\/propertynews\/property-news\/two-years-on-we-still-cant-switch-from-scottish-power\/","url_meta":{"origin":11412,"position":0},"title":"Two years on, we still can\u2019t switch from Scottish Power","date":"September 30, 2016","format":false,"excerpt":"\r Our meters were registered to the wrong address half a mile awayWe bought our first home in January 2014 and were automatically placed on Scottish Power\u2019s standard dual fuel tariff. 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