How British Gas customers can get energy bills slashed by up to £2,000

British Gas' Energy Trust is offering fiscal enactment to galore households

The British Gas Energy Trust, exclusively funded by British Gas, has thrown a lifeline to households caught successful the acold grip of soaring surviving costs by reopening its Energy Support Fund. The eagerly-awaited fiscal boost offers grants to assistance families wide daunting vigor debts.

Up to £2,000 per assistance is disposable for recognition and prepayment metre customers with the UK’s largest vigor supplier, paving the mode for warmer homes arsenic wintertime looms. Alongside, the pre-existing Individuals and Families Fund continues to chopped down the vigor indebtedness for non-customers arsenic well.

A British Gas survey paints a grim picture: 39% of adults wrestling with their bills, yet astir fractional (45%) haven't reached retired for assistance, deterred by a premix of stigma, unawareness, and perceived ineligibility. Fears spike arsenic 42% dread managing their finances with the icy play astatine hand.

Eager to dissolve these fears, the Trust is joining forces with the Post Office and 8 section charities to big complimentary drop-in sessions nationwide. Here, acrophobic residents tin person not conscionable budgeting proposal and vigor indebtedness guidance but besides tips connected conserving energy.

In a connection highlighted by the Daily Record, Jessica Taplin, CEO of the British Gas Energy Trust, declared: "This wintertime is apt to beryllium arsenic challenging arsenic the last, and the British Gas Energy Trust are committed to helping radical get backmost connected apical of their energy bills earlier the truly acold upwind arrives."

She additionally underscored the enactment connected offer: "The reopening of the Energy Support Fund offers eligible households an accidental to wide up to £2,000 of vigor debt, helping guarantee that radical tin support their homes lukewarm and steadfast this winter."

In illustrating the impact, the Trust amplified the communicative of Miss M, a 27 twelvemonth aged residing successful a lodging relation property. Straddling dual responsibilities arsenic a registered disabled idiosyncratic and a full-time carer for her disabled 5 twelvemonth aged child, Miss M's concern necessitates a perpetually lukewarm location to cater to her child’s intricate attraction needs.

She has been endeavouring to execute fiscal stableness with guidance from StepChange. With bully fortune, Miss M benefitted from the British Gas Energy Trust grant, securing assistance totalling £1,341.

Support disposable from British Gas Energy Trust

• Debt Relief Grants - Provides eligible households with grants of up to £2,000 to wide vigor debt.
• Emergency Small Grants - Fuel vouchers provided done our assemblage enactment programme and trusted partners for contiguous vigor needs.
• Community Support Programme - Funds implicit 41 charities crossed Britain, including Citizens Advice offices, to present fund planning, benefits guidance and vigor ratio advice.
• White Goods Programme - Essential appliances are disposable to qualifying households done our assemblage enactment programme.

Over the past year, the Trust has granted implicit £16 cardinal successful vigor indebtedness alleviation and an further £2 cardinal successful exigency substance vouchers to enactment households facing fiscal difficulties.

Eligibility Criteria

Applicants indispensable conscionable the pursuing criteria to suffice for the Energy Support Fund:

• Be a British Gas lawsuit surviving successful Scotland, England oregon Wales
• Have vigor indebtedness betwixt £50 - £2,000 connected a prepayment metre oregon £250 - £2,000 connected a recognition account
• Be experiencing oregon astatine hazard of substance poverty
• Have received assistance from a wealth proposal bureau successful the past 6 months
• Have not received a assistance from the Trust successful the past 12 months

Eligibility for the Individuals and Families Fund

For the Individuals and Families Fund, which is unfastened to some British Gas and non-British Gas customers, eligibility includes:

• Having vigor indebtedness up to £1,700 connected a recognition oregon prepayment metre account
• Be surviving successful Scotland, England oregon Wales
• Be seeking assistance with vigor indebtedness related to the superior residence
• Have received assistance from a wealth proposal bureau successful the past 6 months

How to Apply

The British Gas Energy Trust encourages anyone successful request of enactment to use oregon to larn much astir eligibility criteria done the Trust’s website here.