Late last year my dad passed away as executor of his estate Blue ridge energy's sent me a statement showing he had more than $500.00 dollars in credit for fuel that he received from Social services. I requested that they deliver however much oil that would pay for to his house to insure the heat stayed on. I was told that since he was deceased they couldn't do that and had to return the money to Social Services which I was fine with.
For almost 8 months they sent me statements still showing the credit and I would request that they issue a check to my dads estate and they would repeat the we have to return the money story yet they never would. Finally I had enough of the lie's from them and reported them to Social Services for fraud since they weren't giving my dads estate the money but were also not returning the money to Social Services. Social Services gets involved and tells me that since that money was given to my dad before he died it belonged to his estate and told Blue Ridge to issue a check for the amount to my dads estate which they finally did.
They however didn't include any interest that they made off my dads money while they sat on it for months and months and months. With all the people they served my dad can't be the only one they have done this to. If you have any family or know of anyone that received assistance from Social Services for electric or fuel oil you should check to make sure their estate got the money and that Blue Ridge is not still sitting on it.
