Well I am not exactly happy about it, but I understand why its happened that way.
Part of the lowering of bills was to bring in agile market disruptors.
This massively unexpected change, alongside the inability of Ofgem to act more promptly has caused this.
I was actually one of those that nearly lost money, £13.3 so no drama, but still if the consumers are going in future to be able to lose these funds then the market is likely to be even more of a minefield than it has become.
There will likely be only a handful of suppliers to consumers, and the whole virtual oligopoly that the government deliberatly broke up will return. = Less choice, less change, higher prices.
Normally it wouldnt matter, the only ones that would fail would be lol companies, Ofgem literally forced most of these to fail. Ofgem were asleep on duty.
Its not even purely about the lost credit, its also about taking on customers to supply. Right now they are still taking on new customers at a current loss, would you prefer no supplier of last resort existed for those people?