Re: Confused by increase in Monthly Direct Debits

Hi everyone!
I'm new to the forums and have a quick question: We have a BT line at home which is purely for broadband, so we hardly use the home phone for any calls. As such, our monthly bills are £13.50, which is only the line rental amount. I've been sent an email today with my latest bill telling me I'm in credit to the tune of nearly £30, so BT are giving me a 2 month holiday from payments, which is nice. However, the next line then goes on to tell me my direct debit payments are going to increase to cover my bills!
I'm a bit perplexed by how my direct debits can increase to cover my bills when a) I'm in credit the majority of the time and keep getting payment holidays, and b) I hardly ever use my home phone so I never actually pay any call costs!
Can someone from BT please get in touch and help me to understand, because this doesn't make much sense to me....
Thanks.
Carmen.

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Confused by increase in Monthly Direct Debits

Hi all.
Being a newbie, I'm sure this topic must have been raised in the past.
As a new BT customer, I was paying Monthly Direct Debits of £23.50 to cover my contract for Unlimited Evening and Weekend Plan plus BT Total Broadband Option 1.
After 6 months, I have just received a bill advising me that my Direct Debits would increase to £38.00 per month (a rise of 62%!).
Having been unable to get through to an advisor on the phone, I thought I'd do a little research on the web. I found the BT Help topic "Why has my Monthly Payment Plan amount changed?", which lays out the way the bill is calculated:
Monthly Rental Charges + Last quarter usage divided by 3 + Outstanding charges divided by 6 = Monthly Payment.
In my case, this would be: £23.43 + £3.51/3 + £5.44/6 = £25.51 per month.
Therefore, I'm a little confused, not to mention rather annoyed that my Direct Debits have been increased to £38.00pm, when £26.00pm would seem more reasonable!
Any help would be appreciated.
Martin

Hi Martin,
Having the same kind of problem with BT...you are not alone!
I signed up to BT Vision back in October10 where the nice salesman told me for the package i was having (phone, broadband and tv) I would be paying £51 a month based on my previous phone usage (this figure was worked out for 3 months in advance). After a few initial teething problems all went well until after 3 months BT then tell me my payments were jumping to £88.50 a month without any explanation (my phone usage had not changed in any way during this time). Another 3 months pass, where in the meantime I had paid BT a total of £265.50 but my bill says I only owed them £151.51 so I was in credit by £113.99. BT still wanted to carry on charging me £88.50 even though that was way over what I should be paying. After cancelling the direct debit ( which was an arduous process over the phone talking with their overseas billing department) I have now received a bill for £50+ .....where has my £113.99 credit disappeared?....wits end?....tearing my hair out?....pulling teeth?...all could be used to describe the BT billing experience. The scary thing is BT would of quite happily carried on taking £88.50 out of my account every month and not done a thing.....but if i wasn't paying enough they would be quick to up my payments. Also they are sitting on my £113....along with doubtless other customers overpayments and getting a nice little bit of interest off it. Unfortunately I am tied into an 18 month contract with them and whilst I cant fault the services they provide (although my broadband usage goes near my 40 GB limit which astounds me because we only use the internet for the usual things e mails you tube etc. but thas another forum issue!) i would quite happily just get a freesat box and another internet provider because it seems BT just dont care!
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I don't understand the way bt bills at all. I was convinced that I would be spending approx £50 per month for broadband, landline and bt vision but my monthly direct debits range anywhere from £70 to £100 per month!! Each time I call bt to try and sort this out I am told something different. I can't afford this amount but am now stuck in a contract, even when the balance is cleared and it appears I go back to a reasonable monthly amount it creeps back up again. I have just been told by someone else in an Indian call centre (this may be cheaper for you bt but frustrating as hell for us) that after my next payment in July my balance will be clear and I can start paying monthly for exactly what I use instead every month...well isn't that what I was supposed to be doing from the start? This is ridiculous, cannot wait for contract to end! I want to speak to someone in the uk!! I don't pay this much a month to speak to people in India when I have a problem, surely! Bt...you may think you are saving money using the overseas option, what happens when you lose all your customers due to the sheer frustration of not being able to speak to someone in the uk who truly understands the problem? V frustrated with bt and ridiculous bills

From the info you've given your last bill was on or about 9 April, your payment date is the 8th of the month, and your account is currently virtually in balance. So your April and May payments cleared the April bill. The next bill on 8 July will be for around £150, but you will only have made your June payment by then because your payment date is too close to the bill date. So to get your July bill around zero you need to pay £150 before it's made up.
If I've got all that right, here's how. Click MyBT at the top of this page > Log in > My bills and payments > Manage your payments > Change regular payment > Change payment details > Tick Change the amount you want to pay, or the payment date > Change the amount to £75 and the date to 1st. (Actually, it would be better to do it after your June payment is taken.)
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I got my may bt bill for phone & broadband today and it was slightly higher than usual. BT have said they are going to increase my monthly payments from £43 (which was the figure they advised I pay each month) to £76.50 a month.
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Hi gibson971,
Depending on how much the credit or debit balance is increasing by, the Monthly Payment Plan amount is reassessed regularly and changed accordingly.
I'll take a look at your account and send you an email shortly with more details relating to your own Monthly Payment Plan amount to see what we can do here.
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Confused by constant increases in Monthly Direct Debits, spoke with the indian helpdesk on numerous occasions over the past 12 months and to be honest I am outraged by the change of paying an increase in a Broadband Only option 3. Look if I take up a 12 month contract I know how much over a 12 month period I should be paying. Please do not try and tell me how to work out the BT way of billing! When they originally sell you a service, its generally pay X for 3 months then goes up to X for the rest of the period, so why do BT feel the need to increase your payments. The last conversation I had was because of the predicted useage on my telephone, BT felt the need to increase my monthly direct debit? Why? I have never used the the BT landline for calls, it is a broadband only option so why are they using this predicted useage! Listen, when I took the service out it should be £11 a month line rental and £ 25.99 broadband, so why am I constantly fighting to keep my broadband amount to £37 a month (which I am more than happy to pay, or was anyway), which it should be, but instead I am paying £49 a month for broadband only!!!
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Hi stevem1981,
Welcome to the forum.
I think Ectophile's right, it sounds like you're on a Monthly Payment Plan, where a set amount is taken from your bank account each month, and then you receive a quarterly statement advising of your debit/credit balance.
If your account is in debit or credit by a large amount (and this is relative to what you pay monthly) then the amount is reassessed and increased/decreased accordingly.
If you can send in your forum username and BT account details to the email address registered against my profile I’ll check this further for you.
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Afternoon.
Whilst going through some bank statements I noticed that I have two Direct Debits a month comming from BT, these are both for the same amount of money (This month: £12.50 on the 31st Mar and £12.50 on the 16th Mar), ive gone back to October last year and I can see two debits each month for the same amount each month.
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