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The Guardian - UK
The Guardian - UK
Business
Anna Tims

UNBELIEVABLE: Scottishpower refuses to believe that my father has died - The Untold Story

Solar panels from ScottishPower were jointly bought, but when one party died it showed no help or sympathy.
ScottishPower said it was ‘deeply sorry’ for the family’s experience. Photograph: Timon Schneider/Alamy

When my father died last year, nearly all the companies we had to notify were kind and empathetic, but not ScottishPower.

It had been paying feed-in tariff (Fit) payments for electricity produced from my parents’ solar panels into his account. My parents had bought the panels jointly in 2011, and my mother is named on the certification and was ScottishPower’s main point of contact, so she thought it would be a simple matter for the payments to be switched to her bank account. It was not.

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