Energy Rebate Scheme
The Energy Rebate Scheme is now closed. The Energy Rebate Scheme used data matching to identify a group of pensioners who were likely to be vulnerable to fuel poverty so that their electricity supplier could award a one-off automatic rebate to their electricity bill. This Scheme lasted for one year only in 2010. It will be used to inform decision making on whether data matching could form part of any future fuel poverty programme.
The pensioners eligible for the scheme were people (or whose partner was), on 26 March 2010:
- >aged 70 or over
- receiving the guarantee credit element of Pension Credit but not the savings credit element.
In addition, on 28 March 2010, a person (or their partner) must have been responsible for paying the electricity bill at the place they live and not be receiving a discounted tariff from their electricity supplier.
| Energy Rebate Scheme publications | Date |
|---|---|
Evaluation of the Energy Rebate Scheme – qualitative research with customers (184KB)  |
03/02/11 |
| Outcome of Energy Rebate Scheme (26KB) |
20/12/10 |
| Energy Rebate Scheme Policy Document (79KB) |
01/06/10 |
| The State Pension Credit (Disclosure of Information) (Electricity Suppliers) Regulations 2010 (SI 2010 No. 227) (www.legislation.gov.uk) | 04/02/10 |
