The Water Board Won't Tell You About Their Social Tarrif!

plip8080

THE WATER BOARDS LIKE TO KEEP THIS ONE REALLY QUIET!

Having 4 children I was amazed to discover that over the years I could have saved literally hundreds of pounds on my water rates.

Every area is different, but I am led to believe that all water boards offer similar schemes. Where I live in the South West they call it a Social Tarrif.

Basically, any family with 3 or more children under the age of 19 and in full time education can apply to be on the social tarrif. In a nut shell, you have to have a water meter fitted at the property, the water board 'cap' your bill at a level much lower than that of the rateable value of your property, in my case it was 300 pounds less than my water rate bill. At the end of the rateable year they read your meter. If your bill would have been higher than the rate set by the social tarrif, you only pay the 'capped' rate. If your water bill would work out less than the social tarrif 'capped' rate, they refund you the difference.

Its a win, win situation. TELL EVERYONE YOU KNOW WITH 3 OR MORE CHILDREN:j

boredofbeingathome

Thankyou for that, i have begun to look into this myself.

bertiebots

OOh thanks for that ....off to dig out phone number for yorkshire water!

deanos

Great have more kids and save money , chavtastic

bertiebots

deanos wrote: »

Great have more kids and save money , chavtastic

What would make you say something like that? I have 3 children and was not aware that it was now socially unacceptable. My husband works full time to provide for our family and I dont see anything wrong in giving customers on a meter a capped rate if there are 5 or more people in the house. I think I will stick with the friendlier forums from now on.

t_r

cool thread I've got four rug rats myself watch out Dwr Cymru here I come.

t_r

link to ofwat web site giving full details
http://www.ofwat.gov.uk/aptrix/ofwat/publish.nsf/Content/VulnerableGroups180907

anne211981

why doesnt this rate apply to people who just have children, how many people have 3 kids. i dont i will only have 2 by the end of april, i do not intend on having any more. but my sistuation would be greatly afftected by this. yet united utils just dont want to help my with my £800 bill.

t_r

:embarassegutted no savings for me lol missed the bit about being on a meter oops my total saving would have been -£156

anony_mouse_5

That is because there is NO such thing as a social tarriff!
It is called Watersure and if anyone looks on the OFWAT website the info is there.

Also the info is available at places where it would apply to members of the public for example job centres etc it is designed for people who are in financial difficulties (jobless etc) or people who have medical conditions which require more water than the average household.

so if people look they will find these things- Incidentally it has been around for a while.

mute_posting

anony_mouse wrote: »

That is because there is NO such thing as a social tarriff!
It is called Watersure and if anyone looks on the OFWAT website the info is there.

I think OP was getting at the fact those that need to use more water and are metered can get a discount

"Social Tarrif" is just the generic term that gets applied to various utility tarrifs for such vunerable people.

MP