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How much has your DD gone up by?

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Devo1818 · 14/04/2022 17:28

EDF have emailed me to say my DD has gone up but haven't said by how much and when I log in to find out it says it can't load my data. So no idea what to budget this month.

Current - £122 per month, both gas and electric
3 bed semi, family of 4 (5 and 3 year old).

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PurpleFlower1983 · 14/04/2022 20:43

£125 - £150 - £220

WonderingWanda · 14/04/2022 20:43

@MrsPear

I don’t understand why anyone pays direct debit? I pay quarterly- last bill 04/04 was £420 for electric and gas. 3 bed house. I have smart meter so check monthly snd set aside
What don't you understand? It's a way of keeping the payments the same every month and spreading it across the year rather than 4 bigger payments. I find it practical as we are busy and have lots of other direct debits going out each month...no need to worry about checking the bill and remembering to save some money for it.
Theonlyoneiknow · 14/04/2022 21:11

£137 to £265 (4 bed detached) Bulb

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ReadyToMoveIt · 14/04/2022 21:25

@MrsPear

I don’t understand why anyone pays direct debit? I pay quarterly- last bill 04/04 was £420 for electric and gas. 3 bed house. I have smart meter so check monthly snd set aside
1) I prefer to have the same amount going out each month so I can budget properly 2) my energy provider offers a financial incentive for paying by direct debit 3) I don’t have a smart meter so it isn’t as easy for me to track usage
MargeSimpson79 · 14/04/2022 21:38

Currently £148, increasing to about £260 when we start our new fixed rate next week. We’re with eon, 5 bed, 2a 2c.

Ohbuggeritsme · 14/04/2022 21:43

We're with Octopus, put it up ourselves from £127.99 to £170. We're £220 in credit and not had email.or anything to say about DD going up or anything

caringcarer · 14/04/2022 21:44

From £180 a month to £319 per month.

AledsiPad · 14/04/2022 21:51

SSE tried to raise my electricity DD by 50% yesterday. We gave them a reading a month ago when they asked and they've since estimated one (which is twice as high as the actual reason). for no reason and generated a whole new bill. Bizarre. I phoned them and they agreed to put it back down again, but if they hadn't I'd have simply cancelled the DD to be honest.

I've had to end of trouble with SSE since they were taken over by OVO - never a single issue before that! Can't even switch to get away from them because nobody is accepting new customers, and I managed to fix (for 2 years!) a smidge below the current cap just before they confirmed it so we will avoid any further rise in October etc.

LaMariposa · 14/04/2022 21:57

£90 to £188. Although we were £256 in credit, so I’m not sure why. We’ve a fix just below the current price cap until Feb 24, so hopefully it won’t go up again.

koalalala · 14/04/2022 22:00

I'm a bit confused as to why peoples bills are doubling or more when the price rise was around 54%.

Also we're coming into spring so you'd think people were using a little less than during the colder months.

Am I missing something?

dementedpixie · 14/04/2022 22:03

The standard variable rate increased by around 54%. If you came off a fixed rate to the increased SVR then your increase may be much much higher than 54%. If people have taken out new fixes then they are also higher than the capped standard variable rate prices per kWh so will need a larger direct debit to cover the increase

dementedpixie · 14/04/2022 22:03

Although some companies seemed to be taking the piss and raising direct debits to stupid levels unrelated to what people are using

Pinkyponkalonk · 14/04/2022 22:07

I feel like I'm missing something here too. We were massively overpaying at £129 per month so BG dropped us to £85 in the autumn. Just had our annual review and we are now £144 per month so yes it's an increase but not a huge one. Tracking our usage and we are currently projected to be in credit at the end of our next cycle and ad summer is coming I can't see this changing until rates rise again. But not a horror story by any means.

We are a 3 bed detached, 2 adults and a toddler and on a standard variable rate. I do tons of washing (usually 2 loads a day) sometimes use tumble dryer. Don't use heating that often as it's a new build and very warm. Use kettle and oven etc without thinking about it - plus run 2 baths a day. Hoping we're not in for a surprise soon.

teaandtoastwithmarmite · 14/04/2022 22:07

We're with EDF and it's gone from £212 to £312

ReadyToMoveIt · 14/04/2022 22:15

@Pinkyponkalonk

I feel like I'm missing something here too. We were massively overpaying at £129 per month so BG dropped us to £85 in the autumn. Just had our annual review and we are now £144 per month so yes it's an increase but not a huge one. Tracking our usage and we are currently projected to be in credit at the end of our next cycle and ad summer is coming I can't see this changing until rates rise again. But not a horror story by any means.

We are a 3 bed detached, 2 adults and a toddler and on a standard variable rate. I do tons of washing (usually 2 loads a day) sometimes use tumble dryer. Don't use heating that often as it's a new build and very warm. Use kettle and oven etc without thinking about it - plus run 2 baths a day. Hoping we're not in for a surprise soon.

We went from a low fixed rate which ended on the 2nd April to their new cheapest fixed rate… from £200 to £330 per month.
FreezyFreezy · 14/04/2022 22:18

We don't have a direct debit for energy after I was stung once when they upped the payment to something daft, took the money from my account and left me with nothing to pay my rent with.

I pay the bill every month and it's been about £80-90 so I'm guessing it's going to double. Fuck knows how we'll pay it.

FourTeaFallOut · 14/04/2022 22:19

I went from a fixed rate gas 2.2p/ kWh and electricity 16p/kWh to a new fix at gas 6.6p/kWh and electric 27p/kWh.

Had I been of the svr the whole time then the gap for both would have only been in the region of 54% but in reality it was a much bigger jump - although I won't have another for another 22 months.

CombatBarbie · 14/04/2022 22:24

@MrsPear

I don’t understand why anyone pays direct debit? I pay quarterly- last bill 04/04 was £420 for electric and gas. 3 bed house. I have smart meter so check monthly snd set aside
My company for one waives the standing daily charge if paying by DD. If pay on bill, the standing charge has shot up to 45p a day.
TooManyPJs · 14/04/2022 22:32

£135 to £250. But the £135 on the previous default tariff was a bit low. However I was paying £105 about a year ago on my last fixed rate 😩

flirtygirl · 14/04/2022 22:35

What company @CombatBarbie ?

gogohm · 14/04/2022 22:36

Ours has gone from £119 to £137

Wineat5isfine · 14/04/2022 22:52

SSE - has been a steady £140 for a few years now…now £330. 😡

Hall84 · 14/04/2022 23:16

Just reading through but we were £120,went up to £210 a month. So far we're using it all so can't see there will be any credit for the winter.

MrsRhodes · 14/04/2022 23:45

@AledsiPad

SSE tried to raise my electricity DD by 50% yesterday. We gave them a reading a month ago when they asked and they've since estimated one (which is twice as high as the actual reason). for no reason and generated a whole new bill. Bizarre. I phoned them and they agreed to put it back down again, but if they hadn't I'd have simply cancelled the DD to be honest.

I've had to end of trouble with SSE since they were taken over by OVO - never a single issue before that! Can't even switch to get away from them because nobody is accepting new customers, and I managed to fix (for 2 years!) a smidge below the current cap just before they confirmed it so we will avoid any further rise in October etc.

We have had so much trouble with SSE as well - at one point they kept giving us a £4k bill everytime we gave them a monthly meter reading prior to the smart meter. Turns out gas meter guy put completely the wrong details in which meant we had months of stress sorting it out and getting them to admit they were wrong).
CombatBarbie · 15/04/2022 13:37

@flirtygirl

What company *@CombatBarbie* ?
@flirtygirl outfox the market
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