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[nineveh_uk]

Yesterday, which started with freshers' flu and the discovery that if one must be sick, then doing it with the light off is somehow less horrible, ended on a similarly bum note with the discovery that I've been overpaying my council tax since February, because the single occupier discount wasn't being applied - the letting agent had informed the council of the tenancy, and somehow I had assumed that the discount had been included. It hadn't. Fortunately the man on the other end of the phone this morning said they'd send me a new statement and recalculate the year, so I don't think I'm going to end up overpaying, which is probably more than I deserve. Moral: double check these things!

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[tree_and_leaf]

Gah! I hope they get the recalculation sorted (on the plus side, presumably your next bill will be substantially lower?)

[nineveh_uk]

If they are willing to recalculate over the year, then I think my next bill will be in March!

[tree_and_leaf]

That would be rather good!

[azdak]

Don't they give it back to you if you overpay? That's shocking. How on earth did you find out?

[nineveh_uk]

I wasn't sure if they give it back or not - the man on the phone implied that they recalculate automatically, but I shall wait and see what happens (and if they don't automatically, I shall claim, as I can prove no-one else has been living here).

I found out by phoning the payline (have not got round to direct debit), looking at my bill to do so, and suddenly thinking "Hang on, if that's with a discount, then the annual sum without one is £2000. That can't be right!"

[antisoppist]

They might not recalculate it for ages, or not until the end of the year. You probably need to jump up and down and claim it. But then I still haven't done this about our gas bills which have been saying we are £200 in credit for the past 2 years. I think they think we will use more gas in the winter and it will cancel it out but we have proved that this is not in fact the case.

[parrot-knight.livejournal.com]

My council tax stopped being collected as someone else had registered my address as their home and started to pay it instead... generous of them, but confusing.

[nineveh-uk.livejournal.com]

That's very odd! What happened when they realised?

[parrot-knight.livejournal.com]

They wanted to tell me off and charge me for the full missing amount at once, they said; but admitted it was their fault in the same letter, and offered me a revised schedule. I got a vast number of 'Welcome to your new home!' leaflets though...