Alternative Fuel Payment £400

dealyboy

Hi@frugalmacdugal ...

frugalmacdugal said:

Hi,

Officer_Crabtree said:

Hi,

I looked at my Octopus account today and found I was credited with AFP twice, this seems to be due to me having a complex electric heating system (Total Heating with Total Control), thus giving me 2 meters with 2 MPANs.

should you even have qualified with electric heating, according to Gov.UK,

You’re eligible for this payment if the main way you heat your home uses:

• tank or bottled gas
• liquid petroleum gas (LPG)
• oil
• wood
• solid fuel

OR ...

You’re eligible for this payment automatically if the main way the majority of your postcode addresses heat their homes is by:

• tank or bottled gas
• liquid petroleum gas (LPG)
• oil
• wood
• solid fuel
  

(i.e. not mains electricity)

if your postcode is off the gas grid.

'should' is the active word and deserves a question mark.

A double payment is clearly an unusual quirk, but those who have been omitted and off the gas grid (presumably) are those addresses in blocks of flats or maisonettes where an alternative to electricity is impracticable or not permitted.

pochase

frugalmacdugal said:

Hi,

Officer_Crabtree said:

Hi,

I looked at my Octopus account today and found I was credited with AFP twice, this seems to be due to me having a complex electric heating system (Total Heating with Total Control), thus giving me 2 meters with 2 MPANs.

should you even have qualified with electric heating, according to Gov.UK,

You’re eligible for this payment if the main way you heat your home uses:

• tank or bottled gas
• liquid petroleum gas (LPG)
• oil
• wood
• solid fuel

Or if your post code is listed as no gas and using mainly alternative heating.

In this case everybody in the post code gets the payment, no matter what they use for heating.

[Deleted User]

Hi,

dealyboy said:

Hi@frugalmacdugal ...

frugalmacdugal said:

Hi,

Officer_Crabtree said:

Hi,

I looked at my Octopus account today and found I was credited with AFP twice, this seems to be due to me having a complex electric heating system (Total Heating with Total Control), thus giving me 2 meters with 2 MPANs.

should you even have qualified with electric heating, according to Gov.UK,

You’re eligible for this payment if the main way you heat your home uses:

• tank or bottled gas
• liquid petroleum gas (LPG)
• oil
• wood
• solid fuel

OR ...

You’re eligible for this payment automatically if the main way the majority of your postcode addresses heat their homes is by:

• tank or bottled gas
• liquid petroleum gas (LPG)
• oil
• wood
• solid fuel
  

(i.e. not mains electricity)

if your postcode is off the gas grid.

'should' is the active word and deserves a question mark.

A double payment is clearly an unusual quirk, but those who have been omitted and off the gas grid (presumably) are those addresses in blocks of flats or maisonettes where an alternative to electricity is impracticable or not permitted.

but OP said,

Officer_Crabtree said:

Which is strange as all the properties in my postcode are (or should be) on electric storage heaters.

dealyboy

frugalmacdugal said:

Hi,

dealyboy said:

Hi@frugalmacdugal ...

frugalmacdugal said:

Hi,

Officer_Crabtree said:

Hi,

I looked at my Octopus account today and found I was credited with AFP twice, this seems to be due to me having a complex electric heating system (Total Heating with Total Control), thus giving me 2 meters with 2 MPANs.

should you even have qualified with electric heating, according to Gov.UK,

You’re eligible for this payment if the main way you heat your home uses:

• tank or bottled gas
• liquid petroleum gas (LPG)
• oil
• wood
• solid fuel

OR ...

You’re eligible for this payment automatically if the main way the majority of your postcode addresses heat their homes is by:

• tank or bottled gas
• liquid petroleum gas (LPG)
• oil
• wood
• solid fuel
  

(i.e. not mains electricity)

if your postcode is off the gas grid.

'should' is the active word and deserves a question mark.

A double payment is clearly an unusual quirk, but those who have been omitted and off the gas grid (presumably) are those addresses in blocks of flats or maisonettes where an alternative to electricity is impracticable or not permitted.

but OP said,

Officer_Crabtree said:

Which is strange as all the properties in my postcode are (or should be) on electric storage heaters.

... then it is a double quirk  Edit: I think @Spoonie_Turtle answered this post 3.