Recently the Australian Energy Regulator released its default market offers for 2023-24.
Normalised for consumption rates, Queensland households and small business scored the cheapest electricity bills in the regulators determination and will enjoy some of the cheapest electricity bills in Australia.
Thanks to additional State Government measures, more than one million vulnerable Queenslanders will effectively get a bill decrease compared to last year’s default market offer.
Electricity bills for low-income earners in Queensland will be $816 lower than it otherwise would’ve been.
And that doesn’t even factor in our $372 Queensland Electricity Rebate, available to eligible households.
We’re able to support our most vulnerable Queenslanders because Labor has kept Queensland’s electricity assets in the right hands – the hands of Queenslanders.
Additionally, Queensland’s vulnerable households and small businesses will receive a $500 energy bill rebate in the 2023-24 financial year under the Energy Bill Relief Fund, jointly delivered by the Palaszczuk and Albanese governments. With more relief and support on the way.
Thanks to our Queensland Energy and Jobs Plan we are:
– Providing Relief in cost-of-living rebates;
– Investing in Renewables to push down prices;
– Retaining public ownership.
– Which means more money going back to Queenslanders.
– Rebates will be paid automatically to households already benefiting from the Palaszczuk Government’s $372 Electricity Rebate Scheme and to small businesses.
– Other eligible households will be contacted by Services Australia with information on how to apply for their new $500 energy rebate.
Rebates will be paid quarterly from 1 July 2023 in the power bills of around 1.1 million vulnerable Queensland households and approximately 205,000 small businesses.”
Households eligible to receive a $500 energy rebate include recipients or holders of a:
– Pensioner concession card
– Health Care Card
– Commonwealth Seniors Health Card
– Family Tax Benefit A and B and
– Carer Allowance.
You don’t need to do anything right now.
In most cases your electricity provider will automatically apply the bill relief to your electricity account, and this will reduce the amount you owe on your next bill.
How and when this happens depends on where you live.
Queensland customers will get bill relief quarterly in the 2023-24 financial year.
Queenslanders can find out more about the Energy Bill Relief Fund energy rebates by visiting www.energy.gov.au.
Further information on Queensland energy concessions and cost of living support is available at Concessions.
