£120 warm home discount

TIMMY85

As social tariffs are ended and those customers go to standard, assuming most do not go to the best online deal I suspect they will be worse off!
As a member of staff in a call centre I hope people realise that this scheme was brought in by government - not the utility companies.

aaajjj

My apologies stewie,I missed that bit, but i would still imagine that it would cut out a large number of pensioners

holmesgroove

TIMMY85 wrote: »

As social tariffs are ended and those customers go to standard, assuming most do not go to the best online deal I suspect they will be worse off!
As a member of staff in a call centre I hope people realise that this scheme was brought in by government - not the utility companies.

Could you possibly confirm the criteria for people on regular benefits? According to who you work for, of course.

It would be a big help. Failing that, I'll just call them on Monday morning.

Perhaps I'm missing something, but I'm confused.....

C_Mababejive

I think energy companies should be able to opt in or out of providing social tariffs and rebates such as this.

In this way, i would be able to choose whether i wished to contribute to someone else's fuel bills or not.

I'm not much of a socialist and it doesnt give me much comfort to be going out to work on a Winters day,having to turn my heating off/down to save money whilst others are warming their collective backsides at cheaper rates.

BargainGalore

How about get rid of the feed in tariffs too, why should we pay for others to profit by our misery.

A lot of this eco wash put undue burden on those least can afford to, it can also effect business and ultimately jobs

http://www.dailymail.co.uk/debate/article-2046961/RICHARD-NORTH-How-climate-change-zealots-wrecking-industry-country-possesses.html

C_Mababejive wrote: »

I think energy companies should be able to opt in or out of providing social tariffs and rebates such as this.

In this way, i would be able to choose whether i wished to contribute to someone else's fuel bills or not.

I'm not much of a socialist and it doesnt give me much comfort to be going out to work on a Winters day,having to turn my heating off/down to save money whilst others are warming their collective backsides at cheaper rates.

diceydeb

This cash back is now being paid by the WARM HOME DISCOUNT SCHEME in alliance with most of the major fuel suppliers. go to their website it gives more detail on who can get it.

Or see post 21`

willow_loulou

Oh !!!!!!, I just noticed this after my new thread! some one must have bumped it up while I was in mid post lol!!

As I have said in my post I emailed briitish gas and they called me back. Im getting it credited to my pre payment meter in the January billing quarter quarter

holmesgroove

willow_loulou wrote: »

Oh !!!!!!, I just noticed this after my new thread! some one must have bumped it up while I was in mid post lol!!

As I have said in my post I emailed briitish gas and they called me back. Im getting it credited to my pre payment meter in the January billing quarter quarter

What is the chat with British Gas? If you don't mind me asking, what criteria do you meet? Did you speak with someone today about it? As far as I knew, the department I need to speak to aren't available until tomorrow morning.

willow_loulou

Holmesgroove they phoned me back after I emailed them yesterday. They called me back today, asked if I was on things like housing benefit council tax benefit job seekers and dla etc. I get DLA, council tax credit and child tax credit so I meet their criteria, they didnt go into it in any depth. Try emailing them.

holmesgroove

willow_loulou wrote: »

Holmesgroove they phoned me back after I emailed them yesterday. They called me back today, asked if I was on things like housing benefit council tax benefit job seekers and dla etc. I get DLA, council tax credit and child tax credit so I meet their criteria, they didnt go into it in any depth. Try emailing them.

Thanks for the info. I'm calling them at 8am tomorrow, so I will see if they can help me out. Fingers crossed, but I fear the worst. It seems very vague and has a lot of grey areas.
Thanks again.
p.s. how do the pay the £120 rebate? British Gas that is...