{"id":195226,"date":"2023-10-25T09:52:34","date_gmt":"2023-10-25T09:52:34","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/tokenstalk.info\/?p=195226"},"modified":"2023-10-25T09:52:34","modified_gmt":"2023-10-25T09:52:34","slug":"couple-sent-an-11000-gas-bill-for-18-years-worth-of-energy","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/tokenstalk.info\/world-news\/couple-sent-an-11000-gas-bill-for-18-years-worth-of-energy\/","title":{"rendered":"Couple sent an \u00a311,000 gas bill for 18 years worth of energy"},"content":{"rendered":"<h1>We&#8217;ve been sent an \u00a311,000 gas bill for 18 years worth of energy at our home&#8230; and STILL don&#8217;t know who our supplier was!<\/h1>\n<ul>\n<li><strong>Lee Haynes, 44, said his &#8216;worst fears&#8217; had come true after he received the bill<\/strong><\/li>\n<li><strong>Have YOU had an energy nightmare? Email:\u00a0rhiannon.james@mailonline.co.uk\u00a0<\/strong><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>A couple have been sent an astonishing gas bill of almost \u00a311,000 after being told they owe 18 years worth of energy.<\/p>\n<p>Lee Haynes, 44, and partner Jo Woodley, 45, said they did &#8216;everything&#8217; to try and pay after they moved into their home in Tamworth, Staffordshire in 2005.<\/p>\n<p>The pair said they immediately tried to sort out the maintenance bills when they moved in &#8211; but hit a block when it came to the gas.<span>\u00a0<\/span>Now, almost two decades on, the pair are facing a bill of \u00a310,824.87.<\/p>\n<p>Mr Haynes, a school site worker, said: &#8216;It&#8217;s unbelievable &#8211; my worst fears about this have now come true.&#8217;<\/p>\n<p>Letters from the National Grid and their housing association, both dated in 2006, confirm struggles to establish the source of the gas.<\/p>\n<p>The couple said they are still none the wiser as to who supplied the gas over the 18-year period &#8211; but they have since signed up with a major energy firm.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter\" src=\"https:\/\/i.dailymail.co.uk\/1s\/2023\/10\/25\/10\/76976309-12669983-image-a-1_1698225133915.jpg\" height=\"360\" width=\"634\"><\/p>\n<p>Lee Haynes, 44, and partner Jo Woodley, 45,\u00a0have been sent an astonishing gas bill of almost \u00a311,000, after being told they owe 18 years worth of energy<\/p>\n<p>The pair claim they contacted the ombudsman who said they should wait to hear.\u00a0<\/p>\n<h3>READ MORE:\u00a0Grandmother, 73, was overcharged by British Gas for seven years and left with a \u00a3500-a-month bill<\/h3>\n<p>Mr\u00a0Haynes\u00a0<span>said: &#8216;It was very strange. After a few months we had bills for everything but not gas.<\/span><\/p>\n<p>&#8216;I was worried about suddenly getting a big bill &#8211; so I tried really hard to find out who was supplying our gas.<\/p>\n<p>&#8216;The guy from the housing association tried all the suppliers they work with and said he didn&#8217;t know what to do.<\/p>\n<p>&#8216;When the ombudsman said just to keep the paperwork and leave it, that&#8217;s exactly what we did.&#8217;<\/p>\n<p>The pair then got a letter from gas distributors Cadent in March 2023, which requested a visit so they could look at the supply to the property.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>Three months later, they received a follow-up letter from Cadent which said the couple owed nearly \u00a311,000 for gas usage between 2005 and 2023.<\/p>\n<p>They were served with the official invoice last month &#8211; which states they have 30 days to pay.<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter\" src=\"https:\/\/i.dailymail.co.uk\/1s\/2023\/10\/25\/10\/75681389-12669983-Lee_Haynes_pictured_with_his_partner_Jo_Woodley_and_their_cat_Er-a-2_1698225186449.jpg\" height=\"851\" width=\"634\"><\/p>\n<p>Lee Haynes, pictured with his partner Jo Woodley and their cat, Ernie at their home in Tamworth<\/p>\n<p>Mr Haynes said: &#8216;I just don&#8217;t understand. The 1986 Gas Act says they can recover costs if I&#8217;m at fault but I&#8217;m not.<\/p>\n<p>&#8216;Who would write in their calendar every year to try and find out who&#8217;s providing gas to their home?<\/p>\n<p>&#8216;We just got on with living there &#8211; like we were told to.<\/p>\n<p>&#8216;I did everything I could. I didn&#8217;t want to just let the problem go.<\/p>\n<p>&#8216;After two years of trying really hard to find our supplier and trying to pay British Gas, we were told there was nothing we could do.<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter\" src=\"https:\/\/i.dailymail.co.uk\/1s\/2023\/10\/25\/10\/76976311-12669983-image-a-3_1698225201859.jpg\" height=\"489\" width=\"634\"><\/p>\n<p>The couple said they are still none the wiser as to who supplied the gas over the 18-year period &#8211; but they have since signed up with a major energy firm<\/p>\n<p>&#8216;It would be fair enough to bill us if I hadn&#8217;t tried, but they can&#8217;t really expect me to keep trying for 18 years.<\/p>\n<p>&#8216;There has to be shared responsibility for this.&#8217;<\/p>\n<p>A spokesperson from Cadent said: &#8216;Whilst Cadent are not a gas supplier, as part of our gas transportation licence we have an obligation to investigate and use our reasonable endeavours to recover the cost of any gas used outside of a supplier contract.<\/p>\n<p>&#8216;Whilst we cannot comment on individual cases, we must stress we have a specialist team who are on hand to offer help and support to customers who are required to make a repayment.&#8217;<\/p>\n<p>Source: <a href=\"https:\/\/www.dailymail.co.uk\/news\/article-12669983\/couple-sent-huge-gas-bill-energy-supplier-unknown.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Read Full Article<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>We&#8217;ve been sent an \u00a311,000 gas bill for 18 years worth of energy at our&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4,"featured_media":195225,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[28134],"tags":[],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v21.8 - 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