{"id":75002,"date":"2014-06-19T22:28:57","date_gmt":"2014-06-19T15:28:57","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.siamlandbank.com\/propertynews\/property-news\/energy-companies-and-bills-know-your-rights\/"},"modified":"2017-12-21T00:04:06","modified_gmt":"2017-12-20T17:04:06","slug":"energy-companies-and-bills-know-your-rights","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.siamlandbank.com\/propertynews\/property-news\/energy-companies-and-bills-know-your-rights\/","title":{"rendered":"Energy companies and bills \u2013 know your rights"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>&#013;<br \/>\nIn the wake of the Ofgem ruling on Npower&#8217;s billing backlog, what can you do if you receive an unexpected bill?Npower must put right billing blunders affecting 400,000 customers by August or face a ban on telephone sales, under the latest crackdown by regulator Ofgem.The supplier has been issuing customers with bills months, or even years, after they have switched to another supplier, despite rules stating that accounts should be closed and final bills sent within six weeks. Continue reading&#8230;&#013;<br \/>\n&#013;<br \/>\nSource : theguardian.com&#013;<br \/>\nRead more&#8230;<a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/money\/2014\/jun\/19\/energy-companies-bill-know-rights\" target=\"_blank\">Energy companies and bills \u2013 know your rights<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>&#013; In the wake of the Ofgem ruling on Npower&#8217;s billing backlog, what can you do&#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-75002","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-jvI","jetpack-related-posts":[{"id":11412,"url":"https:\/\/www.siamlandbank.com\/propertynews\/property-news\/scottish-power-faces-fine-and-warning-sales-operation-could-be-suspended\/","url_meta":{"origin":75002,"position":0},"title":"Scottish Power faces fine and warning sales operation could be suspended","date":"November 14, 2014","format":false,"excerpt":"\r Ofgem launches investigation into company, which has had disastrous 11 months since introduction of new billing systemScottish Power could be forced to suspend its sales operation if it does not sort out failings in customer service that have dogged the company for nearly a year, the energy regulator has\u2026","rel":"","context":"In &quot;Property News&quot;","img":{"alt_text":"","src":"","width":0,"height":0},"classes":[]},{"id":5288,"url":"https:\/\/www.siamlandbank.com\/propertynews\/property-news\/save-337-a-year-on-energy-bills-at-the-flick-of-a-switch\/","url_meta":{"origin":75002,"position":1},"title":"Save \u00a3337 a year on energy bills \u2013 at the flick of a switch","date":"February 20, 2016","format":false,"excerpt":"\r Gains to be made by going over to a new supplier are at their highest since 2009. 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