I was of the view that it might be a user issue, so I asked for his password and tried myself.
1. He somehow ended up on the business plan with his regular Outlook email, and you cannot log into the business portal with a non-work or non-school email.
2. No subscriptions show up on his account
3. I looked to find the original subscription emails in case he was using a different account somehow and, no, it's the same email
4. Microsoft has an "advocate" process[0] where you can request someone to help you cancel... but it's broken and raises errors
5. I spoke to Microsoft and they said they're from the consumer side and can't access billing for business subscriptions, and sent me in a direction that gets stuck on the same issue as #1
6. I mentioned this to them and they said they'll have management call back within the hour. That was a week ago.
Through to today, my father is still being billed and caught in this quagmire: it's a business plan but he cannot access the business portal to administer it. I believe he's been paying for about two years now and doesn't use the service.
Does anyone have any avenues to have this resolved?
[0] https://support.microsoft.com/en-us/office/cancel-a-microsoft-365-subscription-46e2634c-c64b-4c65-94b9-2cc9c960e91b