Martin Lewis has shared a new workaround which could help people using a traditional pre-payment meter access the £66 monthly bill discount following reports from PayPoint that hundreds of thousands of households have not redeemed their vouchers yet.
The vouchers are part of the UK Government’s £400 Energy Bills Support Scheme which will provide £66/£67 off domestic electricity bills each month from October until March, 2023. PayPoint said just over half (53%) of the 800,000 vouchers it has issued have been redeemed, which means that households are so far missing out on around £27 million in support that would be paid by the UK Government.
However, Martin Lewis took to social media on Monday to share a possible reason for the vast shortfall, and a simple workaround. He suggested that people may be unable to redeem their voucher as they do not have Photo ID as proof of their identity, but advised that a household utility bill or bank statement dated within the last 12 months should work - emphasising the ‘should’.
