{"id":52589,"date":"2026-05-15T07:15:04","date_gmt":"2026-05-15T07:15:04","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/news.godj.com\/news\/british-gas-pays-20m-over-force-fitting-of-prepayment-meters\/"},"modified":"2026-05-15T07:15:04","modified_gmt":"2026-05-15T07:15:04","slug":"british-gas-pays-20m-over-force-fitting-of-prepayment-meters","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/news.godj.com\/news\/british-gas-pays-20m-over-force-fitting-of-prepayment-meters\/","title":{"rendered":"British Gas pays \u00a320m over force-fitting of prepayment meters"},"content":{"rendered":"<p> <br \/>\n<br \/>Debt agents working for British Gas had broken into the homes of vulnerable customers to fit pre-payment energy meters.<br \/>\n<br \/><br \/>\n<br \/><a href=\"https:\/\/www.bbc.com\/news\/articles\/cq8p7l1y59lo?at_medium=RSS&#038;at_campaign=rss\">Source link <\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Debt agents working for British Gas had broken into the homes of vulnerable customers to fit pre-payment energy meters. Source link<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":52590,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[67],"tags":[9193,2234,15084,553,9801,2101,15085],"class_list":["post-52589","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-top-news","tag-20m","tag-british","tag-forcefitting","tag-gas","tag-meters","tag-pays","tag-prepayment"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/news.godj.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/52589","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/news.godj.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/news.godj.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news.godj.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news.godj.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=52589"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/news.godj.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/52589\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":52591,"href":"https:\/\/news.godj.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/52589\/revisions\/52591"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news.godj.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/52590"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/news.godj.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=52589"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news.godj.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=52589"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news.godj.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=52589"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}