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The Guardian - UK
The Guardian - UK
Business
Kalyeena Makortoff

Shell to pay £536,000 for overcharging prepayment customers

Older woman checks prepayment electric meter
Customers are expected to receive refunds of £9.40 on average. Photograph: Libby Welch/Alamy

Shell has agreed to pay half a million pounds for overcharging thousands of prepayment meter customers on default tariffs over the past three years.

The energy giant’s consumer arm, Shell Energy Retail, will refund and compensate 11,275 customers after it discovered that it had sent the wrong rates to users’ meters.

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