Sunak also announces rebates to 80% of homeowners, those in bands A to D. But, as I asked yesterday, where is the help for soaring energy costs for the millions on low earnings who rent?
The treasury believes 95% of renters pay council tax directly and so will benefit from the energy rebate. I wonder if the data on that is as robust as they believe.
So the Treasury has clarified what they mean by 95% of renters being covered by the rebate. What they mean is 95% of renters are in bands A to D. But they have NO DATA on how many of those renters pay for energy in their own names versus how many pay through a landlord...
So the Treasury cannot be confident that the £150 will actually get to low-income renters rather than being pocketed by unscrupulous landlords. That seems to me to be a potentially big flaw in the scheme to protect the poorest from his humungous price rise
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