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National
Dan Vevers

Scot overcharged £5000 by SSE in years of overpayments reveals ordeal to claw it back

A Scot has told of his “maddening” pursuit of a whopping £5,000 in overpayments from energy company SSE.

Blair Stewart was overcharged on his direct debits for 12 years until he installed a smart meter - and realised he was thousands of pounds in credit.

But it took five months and countless hours on the phone where he was repeatedly fobbed off before the so-called “user error” was rectified.

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