Jack Monroe #359 Hoops I Did It Again

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Cucumberthunder said:
I think it's because the energy company can change the amount of a DD (e.g. if your costs are higher than your monthly charge) without asking you so some people have been finding themselves with massive bills. A SO is a fixed amount.

Jack needs to be really careful here as energy companies can go quite hard on people, but they generally choose not to, but if they decided to make a point and lots of people end up on pre-payment that's no good for anyone
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There used to be the 'direct debit guarantee' whereby you had to be given 30 day's (I think...certainly quite a while) notice on a change of amount....is that still not the case?
 
FreezePeach said:
https://www.12ft.io/https://www.the...an/05/jack-monroe-i-am-an-alcoholic-mea-culpa

Can we revisit her I'm 10 Days Sober and Thus Can Impart Unto You All My Wisdom phase?
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I have been tracking what I spent on alcohol last year by going through old receipts and bank statements.
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Wait, the Queen of Povvos doesn't already track her spending? I could tell you to the penny how much I've spent on alcohol and dining out in the last twelve months, but that's because I budget and I track my spending (which is partly how I knew I was drinking too much and decided to stop). I'm just flabberghasted that someone who claim,s to be so poor and barely scraping by doesn't track her spending at all, even by scribbling it down in a notebook.

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boombalat said:
having 'failed' grammar school having left without the 5 A*-C. At around 11:45 she describes herself as 'not very well educated' because she used to smoke with the boys!
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This is believable. You just know she was one of those head girls who “didn’t have girl friends” because “girls are just so bitchy!!!”.

These are inevitably the conventionally attractive girls who have cycled through friends like clean knickers, enraged every fellow female in their year groups and the ones above and below with their pointless drama, and now have to tolerate the grossness and perving of teenage lads because they’re just Not Like Other Girls.

Poor Jack. So misunderstood. So discriminated against.
 
I watched the pop up restaurant vid without sound as am of a sensitive disposition ( don't want to explain to my beloved why I'm watching). Fair play to the lady in the hair wrap, there was no discernible difference in the amount of food on her plate throughout the clip, she managed to politely move it about the plate without eating.
Also and I'm nit picking here to get the temp to drop that quickly they didn't just turn the heating off. Either they are very soft or the air conditioning was on full belt since they were elbow to elbow at that table
 
Into_the_tunnel said:
I have a question. Energy bills terrify me so I absorb the info I need to and carry on.

The £400 discount is being given (for those normally on dd) by having deductions off dd. If the squigs have cancelled their dd and set up so (which is unusual surely?) then this discount will be much harder to sort out?

Obviously this will not be relevant to those on different types of payment/meter.
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As I understand it, the money will be credited to your electricity/gas account. Its not necessarily direct debit related.
 
Food blogging can be very dark, especially when people don't want to question the evidence in front of them like in the Belle Gibson case.
Belle Gibson - Wikipedia

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Sorry right behind here but this post by @FreezePeach was fascinating, and I think shares a few similarities to Jack.
 
dinosaursideways said:
Had not heard about the £400 discount, thank you all!

Not to go back to rinsed hoops but, I have been reminded of a pasta dish I had regularly as a child that no one on all of Google seems to have ever written about.....has anyone ever had pasta in butter and tomato ketchup? We were not certified poors™ but my mum does not enjoy cooking so preferred the easier options. Another favourite pasta tea was flat noodles with a sauce made of cream and bisto, sometimes with added chicken. These, to my childhood memory, were delicious and easy/straightforward/low waste. I will never stop being surprised at Jack's ability to make food needlessly complicated, faffy, nonsensical, or unappetising while also being completely overblown. Does she enjoy food? It comes across as charade of stories, like she is promoting the idea of something she does not really live or understand.
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www.gov.uk

£400 energy bills discount to support households this winter

The UK government sets out further details of the Energy Bills Support Scheme.
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From what I understand it's being paid in 6 monthly installments starting in October. So £66.67 a month for 6 months.
 
Into_the_tunnel said:
It is really confusing isn’t it? Mainly because there are so many ways people pay and so many types of meter.

People are scared, not helped by the constant bombardment from the media and incorrect information spread by the likes of Jack.

She needs to wind her neck in.

Fruity creamy toastie from 2017 to soften everyone up?

I’m off to walk the 6 miles to my nearest Asda (Cadbury’s mega buttons have been released)

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I know it's wrong, but I quite fancy that toastie.

Don't take away my canal membership.
 
sleepisforwimps said:
As I understand it, the money will be credited to your electricity/gas account. Its not necessarily direct debit related.
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I am with octopus energy, I have recently upped my DD so it can cover some of the winter bill by being in credit - Octopus have a "balance Forecast" which shows the direct debits going forward into next year. They are showing a reduction of £66.67 of my DD between October and March as they think thats how the rebate will work. That tells me that it will likely be how it works but also that it isn't confirmed yet.
 
Long time lurker but I used to work in a call centre that did an energy company campaign. Can only speak for that company and at that time (3 years ago) but cancelling the Direct Debit would mean you revert to paying quarterly and often meant you lost out on any fixed rate tariff you were on. Being on quarterly means you have to repay the full balance in (at the time may have changed )14 days.

If you had credit/0 balance youd be okay until your next bill bit if that was in debt youd be in the same position.

We had a monthly "cash "plan that worked like a Direct debit (paying your eventual bill off monthly) but by manual payment methods but this still worked like a DD in that it was a set monthly amount and if you didnt pay it youd get calls and eventually itd cancel and youd go back to paying your quarterly bill.

They cant cut you off but they can put prepayment meters in and if you dont put enough in them you're effectively cut off. I've seen people say they cant get warrants for everyone but from my understanding they can change smart meters to prepayment remotely .

It's such irresponsible advice and it's the people who can't afford to repay the debt who'll be in the worst position.
 
jenny2603 said:
I have to say I'm bricking it about my winter energy costs but the one thing keeping me going is the howls that will come from the crappy bungalow.
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Yes, agree with one story. The last thing any creditor wants to do is to take formal action against anyone as that costs them a lot of money and brings no reward for their shareholders. So, try to budget to put aside as much as you can (I’m sure you are and I’m not trying to be patronising) but do keep records to be able to demonstrate that to them that you are doing everything that you can to budget and pay the bill. Maybe, even keep a headline record of each month I had this income which went on x, y and z(just roughly). I would imagine that they will be expecting to deal with people negotiating payments as best they can. Where they will have little sympathy is the head in the sand approach of little discussions and throwing your toys out the pram and demanding to just pay 78£!!! And then we can all just hope and pray that a more sustainable way forward is worked out at a higher government level that protects people.
 
Witchfinder Sargeant said:
Wait, the Queen of Povvos doesn't already track her spending? I could tell you to the penny how much I've spent on alcohol and dining out in the last twelve months, but that's because I budget and I track my spending (which is partly how I knew I was drinking too much and decided to stop). I'm just flabberghasted that someone who claim,s to be so poor and barely scraping by doesn't track her spending at all, even by scribbling it down in a notebook.

(Hi, I'm new).
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Hi 👋

She doesn't need to because she isn't skint, concerned about money or vaguely aware of anything unless it's been tweeted by someone a week previous to her reading it.
Although, now you've posted that, she'll likely produce her arch lever files of the past 50 years of her spending forensically recorded.
 
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