2026-06-08 – News – www.theguardian.com
Bereaved relatives have been bombarded with calls, emails and letters addressed to the deceased
ScottishPower sent a debt collection letter to my house demanding £130 owing on my late brother’s gas account. I am his sole executor and had informed it of his death.
The company, meanwhile, owed a £430 credit on his electricity account. It eventually paid this with a cheque issued in my late brother’s name, which could not therefore be cashed.
