Winter Energy Concession Electricity

The winter energy payment is paid to one person in the couple at the rate of 63 64.

Winter energy concession electricity. Contact your electricity retailer to check your concession details. Generally we ll pay it into the bank account of the person in the couple who has the lowest client number you can find this on your supergold card or letters from us. Both the annual electricity concession and winter gas concession have a yearly rebate cap. For more information on these and other concessions and benefits contact the.

Annual electricity concession entitlement is a discount of 17 5 off energy usage and supply charges on residential household electricity bills from 1 december to 30 november of each year. The annual electricity concession gives you a 17 5 per cent discount off your household electricity usage and service costs. These concessions include a year round discount of 17 5 per cent on mains electricity and a winter concession of 17 5 per cent for mains gas usage from 1 may to 31 october. Once you have reached the rebate limit for either of these concessions we will check to see if you need to apply for the excess energy concession and send you an application form.

The winter gas concession provides a 17 5 per cent discount off your gas usage and service costs from 1 may to 31 october each year. Energy retailers in south australia cannot transfer your concession you must contact concessionssa. Use the online household concessions form or phone the concessionssa hotline on 1800 307 758 to update your details once you have received your first electricity bill from your new energy retailer. The excess energy concession was introduced by the victorian government in december 2013 to address fraud and misuse of the annual electricity concession and winter gas concession and to ensure that those concessions are better targeted to those most in need of assistance.

This is calculated as a daily rate on each bill. The concession does not apply to the first 62 40 of the six month winter period bills. From 1 july 2012 a threshold for electricity concessions was introduced to take into account the commonwealth s carbon tax compensation. Households with very high bills over 1 587 82 in the period from 1 may to 31 october 2018 will need to apply for the excess gas concession to continue to receive a concession on their bill.

The government provides a range of energy concessions and relief grants to low income groups for electricity gas and lpg to assist with energy affordability.