Exploring social tariffs for energy

TY - GEN

T1 - Exploring social tariffs for energy

AU - Keung, Antonia

AU - Bradshaw, Jonathan Richard

PY - 2023/4/25

Y1 - 2023/4/25

N2 - A social tariff that reduces the cost of fuel for low-income households could, in principle, more than halve the fuel poverty rate. This achieves much more than the existing cost-of-living payments. It would cost more than the existing cost-of-living mitigations being paid to social security recipients, but it would be much more cost-effective.The big question that remains to be answered is how to operationalise it? How can the energy companies and the government know which households have low incomes?

AB - A social tariff that reduces the cost of fuel for low-income households could, in principle, more than halve the fuel poverty rate. This achieves much more than the existing cost-of-living payments. It would cost more than the existing cost-of-living mitigations being paid to social security recipients, but it would be much more cost-effective.The big question that remains to be answered is how to operationalise it? How can the energy companies and the government know which households have low incomes?

UR - https://www.york.ac.uk/media/business-society/research/Social%20tariffs%2025%20April%202023_Final.pdf

UR - https://cpag.org.uk/policy-and-campaigns/briefing/exploring-social-tariffs-energy

M3 - Other contribution

ER -