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ENERGY BILL RELIEF
Who is eligible:
* Pensioners, veterans, seniors and other concession card holders.
* Recipients of the carer allowance and family tax benefit.
* People in existing state and territory electricity concession schemes.
In NSW:
* More than 1.6 million households and 300,000 businesses will be eligible for energy rebates in the next financial year.
* NSW households will receive $500 and small businesses can get a $650 rebate.
* The price relief rebates will be delivered via energy companies and applied automatically to energy bills.
In VIC:
* More than 1.27 million households and 236,000 small businesses will be eligible for energy price relief from July 1.
* Households will get a $250 annual energy rebate on power bills, in addition to the $250 power saving bonus that will continue.
* Households will continue to access support through year-round electricity concession and the winter gas concession.
* Eligible small businesses will get a $325 rebate, and will receive it automatically if they are a “small customer”.
In QLD:
* More than 1.1 million households and 200,000 small businesses will be eligible for the energy bill relief from July 1.
* Households will receive an annual rebate of $500 and eligible small businesses can access $650.
* The rebates will be applied to household bills by energy companies.
* Small businesses who are classified as a “small customer” will get the relief automatically.
Marion Rae
(Australian Associated Press)
