Actions blocked for days by billing message despite available budget — help needed

[altifiskegrej]

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Hello GitHub Community,

Our GitHub Actions workflows have been blocked for several days, and we are looking for help identifying the correct resolution or escalation route.

Jobs are rejected before any workflow steps run, with this message:

The job was not started because recent account payments have failed or your spending limit needs to be increased. Please check the 'Billing & plans' section in your settings.

What we have checked on the affected personal account, altifiskegrej:

• The Actions budget has substantial remaining capacity; it is not exhausted.
• Payment history shows a successful recent payment.
• The payment method has recently been updated, and the registered card is not expired.
• The billing overview and payment-information pages show no current payment warning, outstanding invoice or visible “Pay now”/retry-payment option.
• A fresh retry on 22 October 2026 at 09:37 UTC was again rejected before execution with the same message.

We have already contacted GitHub Billing Support. The related support references are 4876820 (opened 19 October) and 4891275 (opened 22 October). The issue remains unresolved.

This is preventing the required CI checks and deployment of our warehouse inventory-counting update. We are keeping the existing system running and are not bypassing checks, but the delay is now affecting our planned warehouse work.

Questions:

1. Has anyone resolved this exact pre-start billing restriction when the visible budget and payment pages do not explain it?
2. Is there a supported way to trigger or request a new payment-method authorization when no retry option is available?
3. Could a GitHub community moderator or staff member advise how to route the existing support cases to the team that can inspect the account-level restriction?

We understand that only GitHub Support can inspect private billing details. We can provide any needed account evidence privately through the support cases.

I searched for similar discussions and found other reports of Actions being blocked despite apparent budget headroom, but I cannot tell which remedy applies to this account.

Thank you for any concrete guidance.