Issue: I have a direct debit that doesn’t allow me to cancel it and also doesn’t show in my left to pay bills pot total, I also can’t adjust it to stop coming out of the bills pot as it doesn’t think it’s selected to (although it does come out the bills pot every month!) And doesn’t allow me to select again because it says I should use my card.
You would have received a letter in May saying they’re changing the way the scheme is managed and payments are processed, and you’ll see a new merchant name from July. That might have something to do with it, so I’d wait it out, I’d expect it to fix itself once the next payment is processed.
Needless to say, this isn’t something you should be cancelling anyway, you should go through the government’s portal to manage this.
I know, I wouldn’t be cancelling. It was more that it wasn’t in predicted outgoings and I couldn’t manage the payment from pot, and then I realised I didn’t have the normal cancel direct debit option
Mine hasn’t either, but that not surprising given the content of the letter, and they do mention that your next DD amount may be different as it might be taken later.
I would try to find the letter though, your circumstances may be slightly different to mine so the changes might not be the same - especially since based on the amount you’re paying monthly, you’ve been on the scheme a lot longer than I have. If you don’t have the letter, you should contact them to double check that everything is in order.