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Scenario Modelling on Social Energy Tariff Proposal

Published: 10 November 2025
Directorate: Tackling Child Poverty and Social Justice Directorate
Topic: Housing

This publication provides the results from scenario modelling on social energy tariff proposal.

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Scottish House Condition Survey: key findings and analysis

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Table 4: Chosen social security benefits to approximate medical need requiring additional energy use and their counts in the 2023 SHCS
Benefit	Numbers of households recorded as in receipt in 2023 SHCS
Personal Independence Payment	287,000
Disability Living Allowance	97,000
Attendance Allowance	70,000
Severe Disablement Allowance	9,000
Incapacity Benefit	4,000
Industrial Injuries Disablement	8,000
Armed Forces Compensation	2,000
Child Disability Payment	22,000
Adult Disability Payment	31,000
Total	529,000
Total unique households	469,000
Total Eligible Households under proposed social tariff	155,000

It should be noted that some households in Table 4 above will receive more than one of the listed benefits. As such we have provided an estimate total number of unique households in receipt of one or more of these benefits.

Furthermore, not every household who receives on of the above benefits will be eligible for the proposed social tariff due to the income criteria. Therefore while we estimate 469,000 unique households are in receipt of at least one of the above benefits an estimated 155,000 (33%) would be eligible for the proposed social tariff.

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