If you are living in a home in council tax bands A to D in England, you will receive a one-off £100 “Household Energy Payment” from January, funded by extra tax on banks.
It will be paid directly into your bank account.
You can find your council tax band by looking on your annual bill, or by looking on the government’s website, external – although that was struggling to cope with traffic after the announcement.
Administrations in Scotland, Wales and Northern Ireland will receive the equivalent funding, and they will decide whether to introduce the same payment.
This is designed to help with soaring energy bills. Tariffs linked to regulator Ofgem’s price cap, are forecast to soar by hundreds of pounds a year, to an annual bill of £2,000 or more in January.