{"id":74732,"date":"2017-12-17T14:00:24","date_gmt":"2017-12-17T07:00:24","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.siamlandbank.com\/propertynews\/property-news\/unpaid-thames-water-bill-is-sending-my-credit-rating-down-the-drain\/"},"modified":"2017-12-17T15:03:20","modified_gmt":"2017-12-17T08:03:20","slug":"unpaid-thames-water-bill-is-sending-my-credit-rating-down-the-drain","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.siamlandbank.com\/propertynews\/property-news\/unpaid-thames-water-bill-is-sending-my-credit-rating-down-the-drain\/","title":{"rendered":"\u2018Unpaid\u2019 Thames Water bill is sending my credit rating down the drain"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>&#013;<br \/>\nIt claims I have been using enough water for 80 people \u2026 when I live in a two-bed flatIn April, Thames Water took a meter reading which claimed we had been using enough water for 80 people (we live in a two-bed flat). I now have a \u00a32,500 unpaid bill which drastically affects my credit rating. Thames Water acknowledged it must be a mistake and that I don\u2019t need to repay it. It has put my account on hold although it never contacted me to explain the reading in the first place. It then turned out someone had removed my meter, yet it doesn\u2019t know when or why. It attempted to replace it, but a car was parked over the manhole cover.  Continue reading&#8230;&#013;<br \/>\n&#013;<br \/>\nSource : theguardian.com&#013;<br \/>\nRead more&#8230;<a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/money\/2017\/dec\/17\/thames-water-unpaid-bill-meter-readings\" target=\"_blank\">\u2018Unpaid\u2019 Thames Water bill is sending my credit rating down the drain<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>&#013; It claims I have been using enough water for 80 people \u2026 when I live&#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-74732","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-jrm","jetpack-related-posts":[{"id":87233,"url":"https:\/\/www.siamlandbank.com\/propertynews\/property-news\/why-did-my-thames-water-bill-drain-my-bank-account\/","url_meta":{"origin":74732,"position":0},"title":"Why did my Thames Water bill drain my bank account?","date":"May 6, 2018","format":false,"excerpt":"\r The meter they installed was charging us for the equivalent of seven householdsIn May last year I asked Thames Water to fit a water meter at our property, which should have saved us money with lower bills. 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