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Your supplier broke a rule. We tell you which one, and what it owes you.

Upload the bill you were told to pay. We read the dates, readings and rates against the UK rulebook. The Verdict names the Rule and the pounds you should not be paying.

See what a Verdict looks like

Free, and honest: if you have no case it says so

A short stack of printed utility statements on a plain surface

Exhibit 01The Verdict

The gap is not letters. It is somebody reading this bill.

Every Verdict states a Rule and a figure in the same sentence. This is what one looks like.

VerdictHousehold · gas

USOS-4821

Your supplier is billing you for 31 months of unbilled energy.

Claim Figure

£0

You should not be paying £1,180 of this bill.

Ofgem back-billing rule. You cannot be charged for unbilled energy older than 12 months, so everything before 2025-09-01 falls away.

Period billed
2023-02-14 → 2026-08-19
Last accurate bill
2023-02-14
Readings
Estimated · 31 months
Amount demanded
£2,412.60

The Clock

Your supplier has 8 weeks. You can go to the Energy Ombudsman from 2026-10-26.

An example, built from a real pattern. Yours carries your own dates, readings and figure.

Exhibit 02The problem

A bill goes wrong and you are instantly outmatched.

Ring the supplier and you get a script and a callback that never comes. Search for help and you find blank template letters that assume you already know your rights.

So most people do the one thing the supplier is counting on. They pay it.

Patterns the Rulebook is built forFigures are illustrative

  • Householder

    A catch-up bill for years of under-estimated gas

    £2,400

    Unbilled energy older than 12 months

  • Café owner

    Rolled onto a deemed rate at four times the market price

    £3,100

    Out of contract, never told about the Ombudsman

  • Landlord

    Billed for a void period nobody occupied

    £640

    Account left in the wrong name after a tenant switch

  • Mover

    A credit balance that never came back

    £310

    Final bill closed on an estimated reading

27,006

billing complaints reached the Energy Ombudsman in the first half of 2025. That is 58% of all its cases, up 15% on the year before — and only the people who found their way to it.

Exhibit 03How it works

Four minutes, no account, no password, no phone call.

  1. 01

    Upload the bill

    A phone photo of the whole page is enough. PDF, JPEG or PNG.

    20 seconds

  2. 02

    Check what we read

    Supplier, period covered, meter readings, rates, amount demanded. Fix anything wrong.

    1 minute

  3. 03

    Answer four questions

    What happened, when your last accurate bill was, and what the supplier said.

    1 minute

  4. 04

    Read your Verdict

    The Rule your supplier broke, the Claim Figure, and the date that matters.

    30 seconds

Nobody rings you. The Verdict arrives on screen and in your inbox, and you decide what to do next.

Exhibit 04The Rulebook

The protections already exist. They are just unread.

We cite rules by name and by source, and never invent a statute number.

Back-billing rule

Ofgem

You cannot be charged for unbilled energy older than 12 months. Most catch-up bills die here.

Guaranteed Standards of Performance

Ofgem

Fixed sums are payable when a supplier misses a deadline. They are rarely paid unless claimed.

GSS payments

Ofwat

Water companies owe set amounts for missed appointments, wrong bills and supply failures.

Ombudsman access for small businesses

Energy Ombudsman, December 2024

A business under 50 employees can take its energy supplier to the Ombudsman, free. Almost none know.

Exhibit 05The Case Pack

The Verdict is free. The Case is what you buy.

Not a template. Your dispute, assembled, with your figures in it and the deadlines dated.

  • The complaint letter, with the Rule and the figure already in it
  • An evidence schedule built from your own bill
  • The Claim Figure, broken down line by line
  • The Clock: the exact date you become eligible for the Ombudsman
  • The Ombudsman Submission, written and held ready

Household Case Pack

£19

One dispute, one-off payment

Business Case Pack

£49

Deemed and out-of-contract rates, business Rulebook

No subscription. Emailed reminders on the dates that matter, because most disputes are lost by missing a deadline.

A clipped set of documents: a complaint letter, an evidence schedule and a dated escalation calendar

Exhibit 06Where we stop

The boundaries are the product, as much as the Rulebook is.

We never take a cut

A claims firm takes 25% to 40% of what you win. We take £19 or £49, once, and that is the whole transaction.

We never sell you on

No advert, no insurance lead box, no broker introduction. Nobody buys your panic from us.

We never act for you

We are not lawyers and we do not become a party to your dispute. You send the letter, and you stay in control.

We are not the regulator

Utility SOS is a private company. Nothing here is official, approved or government.

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