£400.00 Energy Grant

Virgo19

I live on mobile home estate and we buy our gas and electricity from the mangement company running the estate not from an energy supplier, how can we claim our £400.00 grant.

QrizB

Welcome to the forum.

Currently, you can't.

Your management company is probably on a commercial contract and they can't claim it either.

Virgo19

That is so unfair, those that need it will not get it and those that do not need will get it possibly more than once, this has not been thought out very well !!!

DE_612183

Virgo19 said:

That is so unfair, those that need it will not get it and those that do not need will get it possibly more than once, this has not been thought out very well !!!

I think the government were under pressure to help out a huge amount of people and provide them with some help as soon as possible.

The money had to be sought from somewhere to balance t he books so, I think the government has thought it out quite well - yes there are some people who fall through the gaps, but hopefully they will be addressed - I would suggest you contact your MP and also all others in your situation so that anyone who needs it can be helped - this would be the same for all forms of benefits that get implemented.

In my view the criteria set was the quickest way to implement without widespread abuse, so was thought out.

Astria

Virgo19 said:

That is so unfair, those that need it will not get it and those that do not need will get it possibly more than once, this has not been thought out very well !!!

Regardless of how they do it, it will always exclude someone.

I don't see how anyone will get it more than once though, and management companies will likely not get it at all as they'll be on a business tariff and passing on the cost of the energy without profits.

Robin9

Astria said:

I don't see how anyone will get it more than once though,  ..........

People with holiday homes ? 

DE_612183

Astria said:

Virgo19 said:

That is so unfair, those that need it will not get it and those that do not need will get it possibly more than once, this has not been thought out very well !!!

Regardless of how they do it, it will always exclude someone.

I don't see how anyone will get it more than once though, and management companies will likely not get it at all as they'll be on a business tariff and passing on the cost of the energy without profits.

I presume if you have multiple homes and the electricity is supplied in your name and each one, then you will get it more than once, as the money will be directed to your electricity account for each property.

QrizB

Astria said:

I don't see how anyone will get it more than once though

As it's currently been presented, people with second (third, fourth ...) homes will get two (three, four ...) payments.

MWT

It isn't perfect, but the admin overhead cost to fix these problems would likely cost more than the amount they are 'wasting' ...

One of the MPs was trying to do something about the caravan parks though as they are a more easily identifiable group, not sure how far the debate has gone yet though...

TheMightyShowerHead

Why not pay it through council tax again. And exclude empty and second homes from the rebate. Seems fairer and the system is already in place?

Virgo19

That would make more sense.