Best electric and or gas tariff for pensioners?

Richie-from-the-Boro

knightstyle, things you might like to consider are :

Risk temperatures
- 24C - top range of comfort
- 21C - recommended living room temperature
- Less than 20C - death risk begins
- 18C - recommended bedroom temperature
- 16C - resistance to respiratory diseases weakened
- 12C - more than two hours at this temperature raises blood pressure and increases heart attack and stroke risk
- 5C - Significant risk of hypothermia
Help Yourself - Heat Loss Reduction Values are ish !
- secondary glazing + insulated shutters 77%
- secondary glazing + heavy curtains 66%
- stand alone insulated shutters 60%
- double-glazing 55%
- honeycomb blinds 36%
- modern insulated roller blinds 22%
Help Yourself - The starting point for the cheapest tariff are !
- an e-account, paperless, pay by direct debit
- you supply your own monthly meter readings
- know your annual energy use in kW terms and use more than one comparison site
Help Yourself - The electric blanket and onesies are your friend
Those with Age, Mobility Problems, or Disabled
If you have mobility problems should register with your energy providers 'priority services register' this will facilitate :
- Password protection schemes and identity cards
- Quarterly meter readings so you don't get estimated bills
- Annual gas safety checks
- Your meter moved so it's easier to get to

knightstyle

Many thanks AGAIN for all this useful info.
Starting to write a simple guide for us to follow, first workshop will be mid Jan.

Ken68

Nice to see you mention INSULATED SHUTTERS, Richie.
My guess is they are more cost effective than double glazing.

McKneff

Nada666 wrote: »

Even more important than discounts is persuading stubborn idiots to pay by direct debit - another £300 or £500 and more off their bill plus they spread it over the whole year - less likely to not put the heating on because they don't want a quarterly winter bill.

But some pensioners would prefer to become a statistic than use a bank account.

I take great offence at that to be honest. I do pay by direct debit, but you are assuming all pensioners don't. Neither do I get the warm home or front or whatever its called.


Do you lump your parents, grandparents into the 'stubborn idiots' you would take great offence if someone else called them that, now reign it in. Your remark is offensive, full stop.

Nada666

McKneff wrote: »

I take great offence at that to be honest. I do pay by direct debit, but you are assuming all pensioners don't. Neither do I get the warm home or front or whatever its called.


Do you lump your parents, grandparents into the 'stubborn idiots' you would take great offence if someone else called them that, now reign it in. Your remark is offensive, full stop.

I have never assumed no pensioners pay by direct debit. Nor have I ever chimed in with scum wanting universal payments to be replaced with means-tested ones.

Deliberately choosing to freeze to death rather than adjust your behaviour or deliberately choosing to pay twenty percent extra strikes me as stubborn idiocy. They need to be called out on it, not have their hands patted and told to carry on. Your response is offensive and dangerous (and sort of strange since you seem to agree with my message if not my tone.)

Former_E.ON_Company_Representative:_Malc

knightstyle wrote: »

I am having trouble finding actual tariffs that are available to them, it seems that people like E-on do not publish actual tariffs, unless you know different?

knightstyle wrote: »

One annoying thing I have found is that E.on and presumably others do not publish tariffs! You have to give them your personal info. and they then select the best tariff for you!

Hi knightstyle

All our current tariffs are available to be viewed together regardless of individual personal info. They're on a pricing grid on our website.

They're under 'About E.ON.' Just go to 'How we service customers.' Click 'Standards of Service' and then 'Our Product Prices' from the left hand menu.

Hope this helps.

Malc

Former_E.ON_Company_Representative:_Malc

NowRetired wrote: »

I don't know if Eon still offer this tariff to new OAPs but my tariff is called warm assist and is cheaper than any other tariff on offer.


20.013p SC and 10.2380 per kWh for electricity and 20.013p SC and 03.1670p for gas inc VAT.


Though you have to be on some type of benefit.


I was getting pension credit, though that has stopped, too much income and savings now, I'm just waiting on Eon to transfer me to another tariff but after 2 years waiting I have given up.

Hi NowRetired

Just to confirm, our Warm Assist tariff is no longer available for new applicants.

Malc

NowRetired

Just to confirm, our Warm Assist tariff is no longer available for new applicants

Is it correct that it will be ending in April 2014 for existing customers?

McKneff

Nada666 wrote: »

I have never assumed no pensioners pay by direct debit. Nor have I ever chimed in with scum wanting universal payments to be replaced with means-tested ones.

Deliberately choosing to freeze to death rather than adjust your behaviour or deliberately choosing to pay twenty percent extra strikes me as stubborn idiocy. They need to be called out on it, not have their hands patted and told to carry on. Your response is offensive and dangerous (and sort of strange since you seem to agree with my message if not my tone.)

I cant quite believe you have posted this. What you need is a totally different ie 75 year old brain, these people have come through a world war, its not a case of deliberately choosing to freeze to death, we have lived through no heating in our earlier life, lots of older people are niave and see it as 'I'll be okay, been there, done that' I'll be okay, no one, not even idiotic old people choose to die. I am 64, never experienced central heating till I was in my late forties, before that, I got up on a morning with ice inside of the windows, often got dressed under the bedclothes, we accepted it, and just got on with it, instead of insulting pensioners, you should be thinking a bit more about educating older people. Not ramming your values down their throats and being a bit more sensitive.
You have absolutely no idea, The world, its attitudes and its values have changed so much in the last 50 years and we have had to adapt to you youngsters changing it, mostly for the better. But some unfortunately to the detriment of society.

Former_E.ON_Company_Representative:_Malc

NowRetired wrote: »

Is it correct that it will be ending in April 2014 for existing customers?

Morning NowRetired

There's currently no end date for existing customers on our Warm Assist Variable tariff.

We review all our products on a continual basis and will let customers know well in advance of any changes.

Hope this helps.

Malc