Publication - Advice and guidance
Social Tariff Working Group: final report – spring 2025
Final report from the Social Tariff Working Group making recommendations to the UK Government on the implementation of targeted energy bill support.
1. Executive Summary
The Social Tariff Working Group recommends that a social tariff should be:
- applied automatically as a unit rate discount or formula/matrix based real-time rebate
- calculated based on a sophisticated set of metrics which could include:
- household income
- number of people in household
- unavoidable energy consumption (e.g. due to medical need or rural challenges)
- funded through general taxation
- applied to all fuel types