Do you have a ton of credit? I still have and used to get notifications to reduce my DD.My direct debit is changing again... its gone down by 21 a month. Well thats very unexpected!
A significant portion of our gas comes from the North Sea still, however the amount that we import has been steadily increasing.
From: https://inews.co.uk/news/uk-gas-where-from-how-much-russia-import-britain-supplies-explained-1504257
Some credit though that didn't stop them putting it up a couple of months ago. Oh well lets just hope its not an ill-advised April Fool joke
My late mother’s relatively small bungalow had an electric storage heater based system (economy 7 ish) but with wet radiator circulation. When that failed it was replaced by an electric boiler heating the same radiators, on a standard tariff. The cost of running it was completely off the scale, in the stupidly high direction. Personally I’d run a mile from such a system.
Correct, the price cap only applies to a supplier's default/standard tariff. But as we've seen in recent months, the cap can rise. The level of the fixed deal may be higher than the cap now, but who can say what the cap will look like in October? Or next April? Whereas a fixed deal from your supplier is exactly that, if you're happy with that price then it wouldn't be going up over the term.
I don't see anything to suggest that would be restricted only to customers on default tariffs.
I was in a similar situation. The thermostat was at the bottom of the stairs, so the an area that was never really warm as the heat went upstairs.
Your house, when completed and assessed for council tax would have its value back dated to 1991 to put it into the correct band. That is, the VOA (Valuation Office Agency) if this house had been built in 1991, it would have sold between £88,001 and £120,000, therefore it is Band E.
| Band | Value at 1 April 1991 |
| A | up to £40,000 |
| B | £40,001 to £52,000 |
| C | £52,001 to £68,000 |
| D | £68,001 to £88,000 |
| E | £88,001 to £120,000 |
| F | £120,001 to £160,000 |
| G | £160,001 to £320,000 |
| H | more than £320,000 |
Haha so a Southist Northern biased tax benefit them lol!Your house, when completed and assessed for council tax would have its value back dated to 1991 to put it into the correct band. That is, the VOA (Valuation Office Agency) if this house had been built in 1991, it would have sold between £88,001 and £120,000, therefore it is Band E.
The system has many flaws, including the fact that similar houses, even back in 1991, varied in price across the country so there is geographical discrimination. The vast majority of properties in Stoke-on-Trent are in Bands A-D so most households will receive the £150 big cash prize. I guess a much smaller proportion in London and the South East will receive it. Yay, levelling up.
Similarly, the assumption is that people living in a higher banded property are automatically wealthier. Generally that will be the case, particularly if they have recently bought the property (or even took on a lease/tenancy as rents reflect value). But an elderly person could have bought many decades ago, whilst earning a decent wage, but now struggling on just a state pension, or a reduced private pension due to pension fund scandals, or following a divorce where wealth including the pension may be split, or they inherited a large house but not cash wealth to go with it eg house to son, cash to daughter.
Band Value at 1 April 1991 A up to £40,000 B £40,001 to £52,000 C £52,001 to £68,000 D £68,001 to £88,000 E £88,001 to £120,000 F £120,001 to £160,000 G £160,001 to £320,000 H more than £320,000
Move house!
The problem is that is an excellent Idea so it will never happen! A bit like NPR, a higher priority than HS2 but will never happen or be done piecemeal on the cheap!
What percentage of properties fall into bands A to D?
Depends on the Council area, a lot more in inner London than say Hull
Also in the source linked above:
Is this more than the standard tariff (not d/d)?. I thought pre-payment customers couldn't be penalised anymore for be on a key meter or whatever.
https://www.ofgem.gov.uk/sites/defa... cap letter for 1 April 20221643903154554.pdf has a table of the caps for each payment method on the last page. Though the difference doesn’t appear to be that large.
Yes i saw that drivel yesterday. Well i don't have central heating so i know from experience that wearing a jumper doesn't really compensate that much!
