Energy: Billing

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Question to the Department for Business, Energy and Industrial Strategy:

What steps he plans to take to help elderly people manage their energy bills.


Answered by
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Claire Perry
This question was answered on 13th March 2018

All pensioners receive £100 to £300 Winter Fuel Payments and around 1.3 million low income pensioners receive the Warm Home Discount - a £140 rebate off their bills each winter.

Additionally, the recent cold weather triggered payments of £25 for qualifying households.

I will be shortly consulting on how to best focus the £640mm of ECO funding onto low income households - which is intended to include elderly people living in fuel poverty.

The Price Cap Bill will protect 11m households with 5m households already protected by the Ofgem safeguard tariff.

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