Pollyana

6 of the payments are in advance of the date the licence starts, 6 in arrears. So if your licence starts in July, you start paying for it in January!!! Hence if you are leaving in July, cancel your DD in January (though they will pester you at times till you leave),
If your licence starts in August, you start paying in feb, so if leaving in October you need a licence for 3 months - so make 3 payments, and cancel in April.
Took me a while to work it out, but i hope that makes sense!

Stormz

Cheers BB

Good news is that we got a reply from a different person at Seeboard who said it wouldn`t be a problem for us to take readings and call them the day we are moving out and pay by card over the phone. I asked why all the crap from the other person when this is exactly what we were saying but I don`t expect a reply. Will still have to battle it out with BT though who want to disconnect us a few weeks before we go. Like to see what they say to the fact we have a baby and a pregnant lady in the house who need a phone in case of emergencies. Bastards.

Big Bird

Glad you've sorted out Seeboard, but what I don't understand is that you are being upfront with BT and you are going to pay them. How many people just clear off leaving unpaid bills? In the circumstances they are being totally unreasonable.

I'd get rid of mine now just to stop the pain in the arse selling calls. 3 in 3 days this week!! Lived with only a mobile for 6 months - total bliss.

Just noticed that you are in Maidstone - lived there for 30 years.

At least it's not long until you go to go!

BB

delia

Slight digression from the subject but relevent considering the nightmare people have trying to be honest. Freinds of ours left in Aug' 2003 and whilst tidying up their affairs tried to inform the DSS that they were leaving for Australia and would no longer require their family tax credit. Some dipstick 18 year old on the other end of the line said that the credit had been awarded until end of March 2004 and the system didn't allow it to be stopped. "But we're leaving the country" our friends insisted, "I,m sorry but there's nothing I can do" replied the person on the phone. Oh well thought our friends who then carried on recieving the payments, about 2000 pounds. What a result.

Stormz

Dunno how that works. I thought once you weren`t in the country anymore you don`t get paid (as you have no job), therefore you don`t get any tax off (as there`s no wages to tax).

We get family tax cred so could be good