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[VIC] $250 Power Saving Bonus for Victorian Households

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[VIC] $250 Power Saving Bonus for Victorian Households
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Willy62 on 09/02/2023 - 11:29 compare.energy.vic.gov.au (7587 clicks)
Last edited 26/02/2023 - 18:46 by 2 other users

Went to check my energy prices after a $400 monthly bill and saw the $250 grant at the top of the Victorian Government compare website. The $250 grant does not require you to change providers and payment is made in 7-10 days for 5 minutes of work. From the website:

The $250 Power Saving Bonus for Victorian households is now open. Before submitting an application for the bonus, please read the eligibility requirements.

Eligibility requirements:
* You must be a Victorian residential energy consumer (i.e. have a residential electricity account).
* You must be the account holder
* Only one payment is available per household

As part of the Power Saving Bonus application process, we will present you with information about the best priced electricity offers available in your area. You are not required to switch offers or retailers.

The application process will take five to ten minutes of your time, and you will need to have a recent electricity bill with you.

Mod: Original Deal (2/5/22) - Duplicate Exception (over 6 months).

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  • Imposter on 09/02/2023 - 11:30

    Is this the second round or third?

    • alex804 on 09/02/2023 - 11:32
      +1

      From the FAQ, it stated, Applications are open between 1 July 2022 and 30 June 2023

      • Imposter on 09/02/2023 - 11:35
        +28

        Ok so it's the same program

          • GG57 on 09/02/2023 - 13:43
            +17

            @markathome: What does this free money have to do with lockdowns?

          • Miss B on 09/02/2023 - 23:18
            +6

            @markathome: He kept extending the lockdowns because you lot promised to leave if he did, why are you all still here?

            • markathome on 11/02/2023 - 16:11

              @Miss B:

              He kept extending the lockdowns because you lot promised to leave if he did, why are you all still here?

              Just because I can't walk past a good deal Miss B, does this mean you'd be willing to chip-in for a GoFundMe to help make our mutual dream of me leaving Victoria come true?

          • thrifty mum on 10/02/2023 - 10:09
            -5

            @markathome: Agree 100% although TBH I don't think any amount of money can compensate us and especially our kids for those disgustingly OTT lockdowns and restrictions.
            (Cue the sheeple's responses.)

            • 0jay on 10/02/2023 - 11:44
              +3

              @thrifty mum: It’s funny, sheeple used to be a cute/pathetic term goths and emos used to refer to a mainstream they felt alienated from.

              Now it’s used by grown-ass adults to refer to a mainstream they feel neglected and undervalued by.

              Potato potato.

              At least the goth/emo aesthetic had a bit more style than frazzled suburban kmart shopper with bad attitude.

              • thrifty mum on 10/02/2023 - 12:44
                -4

                @0jay: Hook, line and sinker! Must be a Dan follower, you poor thing😔
                FYI I'm neither frazzled, nor a Kmart shopper (whatever that implies), I work 62 hours a week, dressed in hi vis and work boots, and most of my shopping is groceries from Coles/Aldi or online from Myer as I have no time to browse in stores, and when I do, I prefer Bunnings! (typically wearing jeans and T-shirt)!
                Big assumptions you made there😂

                • 0jay on 10/02/2023 - 14:01

                  @thrifty mum: I don’t care where you shop or what you wear.

                  What I’m concerned about is idiots broadcasting their stupidity without any pushback beyond a neg.

                  ‘Dan follower’ is a case in point - you have any idea how stupid that is? Politicians represent. They don’t have followers.

                  • markathome on 11/02/2023 - 16:22
                    -1

                    @0jay: Please consider 0jay, the effect of lockdowns are more than just a political point for some. Many of whom are still trying to put their lives back together.

                    Also we have drifted somewhat from the bargain, which we now have two sources suggesting will be extended in FY23/24 for those who stay in Victoria:

                    • 0jay on 11/02/2023 - 20:10

                      @markathome:

                      we have drifted somewhat from the bargain

                      The new round opens in July. The current round (as linked to in this ‘bargain’) is the same as from July last year which is irrelevant to anyone who’ve already claimed it (unless you have a new ‘household’).

                      As for the lockdowns they were not political, they were about navigating pandemic chaos through emergency powers in a climate of limited knowledge and conflicting advice.

                      Just because lockdowns/public health measures have been politicised does not make them ‘political’.

  • loksmack on 09/02/2023 - 11:32
    +33

    This is the same program that launched July 1st 2022. So an old deal that has already been covered.

    • Franc-T on 09/02/2023 - 13:27
      +5

      FFS I just wasted 10 mins filling it in.

      TY for heads up.

  • bhunter101 on 09/02/2023 - 11:32
    +30

    Dupe

    • Nuggets on 09/02/2023 - 12:52

      That deal was posted over six months ago was it not?

      • bobzor on 09/02/2023 - 13:00
        +17

        Still a dupe, as every real OzBargainer has already claimed it

        • serpserpserp on 09/02/2023 - 19:59
          +6

          We all claimed it 1st of July

        • deal88 on 10/02/2023 - 08:43

          I appreciate the reminder. I was too busy buying discounted Ryobi tools, Black Friday stuff I did not need and a sweet Mercedes bicycle.

          $250 will come in handy.

          For all of you who already have your cash, the post is at least a good reminder that a new round is coming.

  • Piranha2004 on 09/02/2023 - 11:36
    +5

    Oldie but a goodie

  • sharkyoz on 09/02/2023 - 11:36

    bugga

    • jv on 09/02/2023 - 11:49
      -3

      wrong website.

  • mynameisborat on 09/02/2023 - 11:41
    +1

    why no love for NSW?

    • jv on 09/02/2023 - 11:50
      +4

      You got Back to School vouchers instead.

      • mynameisborat on 09/02/2023 - 13:22
        -1

        But NSW pays higher taxes than VIC

        • reactor-au on 09/02/2023 - 13:26
          +2

          But NSW pays lower energy prices than VIC

        • loksmack on 10/02/2023 - 09:12

          NSW also gets a higher proportion of taxes spent in the state. Victoria pays more than they get back.

    • GG57 on 09/02/2023 - 11:51
      +1

      State government initiative.
      Move to Vic.

      • THICKnSLOW on 10/02/2023 - 07:55
        +3

        No thanks we're full, stay where you are please 😊

    • DarkOz on 09/02/2023 - 12:26
      +1

      One of the two major parties in NSW promised this same deal if they win the next State election. Would have been better if it was a $250/week rental assistance for comparing rents…

      • Jonzay on 09/02/2023 - 13:55

        I don't need it as I actually turn a profit from my Solar - I would hope that would make me ineligible for the free money…

        • GnarlyKnuckles on 09/02/2023 - 15:51
          +2

          If I was you, I would hope it wouldn't. Who let this guy join OzB anyway?!? ;P

    • markathome on 09/02/2023 - 14:19
      -2

      …and fewer days in lockdown plus a competent government.

      • GG57 on 09/02/2023 - 14:34
        +3

        Is there a reason you haven't moved to another state or territory or country?

        • thrifty mum on 10/02/2023 - 10:12

          Some of us have jobs and kids in high school… Not that easy (unfortunately)

      • Ulysses31 on 09/02/2023 - 21:49

        Keep posting. I'll be back when my negs renew.

      • buckster on 10/02/2023 - 08:12
        +1

        Yes, best government!

        Heil Perrottet

  • Gavman on 09/02/2023 - 11:43
    +4

    Must of been living under a rock since last July

  • clover on 09/02/2023 - 11:49
    +3

    I am surprised someone ozbargain hasnt claimed it yet.

    • jv on 09/02/2023 - 11:50
      -4

      or created multiple fake addresses to claim more than once.

      • Gavman on 09/02/2023 - 11:55
        +7

        I think you are looking for FraudBargains

      • Franc-T on 09/02/2023 - 13:28
        +2

        After installing electricity meters and service connections to said fake address lol

  • Muzeeb on 09/02/2023 - 12:22

    Took months for my claim to get paid out. Our property mains power supply goes to our shed first and then fed to the house. The government wouldn't pay up until I convinced them that I don't live in a shed. I reckon I put $250 worth of labour into this rebate. Oh well.

    • bobzor on 09/02/2023 - 13:02

      Sounds like you're on a SME tariff instead of Resi?
      Just get retailer->distributor to reconfig smart meter

      • Muzeeb on 09/02/2023 - 13:19
        -1

        Definitely residential but distributor has our address as…

        SHED xxx road suburb Vic postcode

        • bobzor on 09/02/2023 - 13:52

          Ah, yes it's incredibly painful to remove old location descriptors. In fact I have never heard of it happening to date.

  • angyp on 09/02/2023 - 12:24

    I think there might be another round of this just around the corner.

  • Wolfenstein98k on 09/02/2023 - 12:30
    -5

    Fantastic policy for increasing inflation (and thus interest rates).

    I am very glad my state government borrowed billions in order to hand out money during an inflationary spike.

    Thankfully they did this while already being the most indebted state in the nation, so we not only pay for this in tax (and inflation), but we also have to pay interest on the debt too.

    Wonderful policy.

    • tunzafun001 on 09/02/2023 - 13:28
      +7

      Bang on. Not sure why the Neg.

      Print Money, give out, dilute the supply, need more to pay for the same thing (ie. Inflation).

      • AngoraFish on 09/02/2023 - 14:21
        -3

        $250 is trivial in the scheme of things, and in any case the program was announced 2 May 2022, well before the bulk of any inflation spike.

        Unlike in NSW, which just announced the same program.

        • Wolfenstein98k on 09/02/2023 - 15:07
          +4

          $250 is trivial sure, but $250 for every citizen is over $1.6 billion.

          Why is NSW also handing out cash before an election - as this policy in Vic was - some sort of defence of such awful fiscal policy?

          • AngoraFish on 09/02/2023 - 15:21
            +1

            @Wolfenstein98k: I explained that the policy was announced at a time when stimulus was still a thing, people were freaking out about energy prices (like every other week for the last decade), and was being developed while the reserve bank was still talking about no interest rate rises until at least 2024.

            Everyone has 100% clear vision in hindsight, eh?

            Whether you think the NSW policy, formed during dramatically different circumstances, is a good policy is really neither here nor there. I certainly wasn't offering it as a defense, just explaining the policy appears to be bipartisan.

            Also, your calculation is wrong, it's $250 per household, not per citizen, so the net effect is a fraction of what you assert.

            But look, if you want to talk about "awful" fiscal policies stoking inflation, let's have a chat about negative gearing, or stage 3 tax cuts, amongst many other things.

            • Wolfenstein98k on 09/02/2023 - 18:15

              @AngoraFish: They began the policy months after the interest rate rises started and many many months after the inflation figures showed persistent core inflation.

              Just because it took a long time to plan does not excuse massive stimulus during very severe inflation.

              As to household vs individual, yep I got that wrong and it reduces the figures.

              But your list of policies you think are bad is quite funny - why would decades old policies that allow individuals to deduct the cost of investing from the income from those investments (aka negative gearing) be relevant?

              Stage 3 tax cuts are also years old and (in part) designed to tackle bracket creep.

              Both are bipartisan policies.

              • AngoraFish on 09/02/2023 - 20:18

                @Wolfenstein98k: So… wasteful, inflationary policies are fine, no matter that they are several hundreds of orders of magnitude larger, so long as we've been wasting that money for a long time? Got it.

                Although, Stage 3 eh? Took a long time to plan? Check. Not implemented yet? Check. For the life of me I can't see the parallels.

                Regardless, Stage 3 tax cuts have nothing to do with bracket creep, self evidentially. They eliminate an entire bracket, full stop. It's a blatant tax giveaway to the very wealthy. Reducing bracket creep would involve increasing the thresholds at which a tax rate applied, or better yet, indexing them to inflation. But, you know, any excuse sounds better than rich people are worthy while poor people are bludgers, amirite?

                But sure, let's get all hysterical about a one off $250. No need at all to worry about real problems when we have cheap political points to score.

          • GG57 on 09/02/2023 - 16:28
            +1

            @Wolfenstein98k: The rebate is available for every household.
            Not every citizen.
            Not every household will partake.

            • Wolfenstein98k on 09/02/2023 - 18:15

              @GG57: True, that would drop the figures significantly from what I wrote.

              • ohmumma on 10/02/2023 - 06:00

                @Wolfenstein98k: According to the latest census there were ~2.81m households, so it wouldn't even reach $1b.

        • brenwildman on 10/02/2023 - 12:10

          This scam started as early as 2018 (https://www.premier.vic.gov.au/helping-victorians-bust-their…) with the $50/$250 hand-out which proceeded recent inflation and power prices.

    • hazzad on 10/02/2023 - 09:23

      Pretty sure most people would have actually used this to put towards bills in some way shape or form. Its not like a stimulus payment where people can spend it on any discretionary item. Everyone pays utilities so reality is it would have gone to that for pretty much every single person in the state. I know it helped us.

      • Wolfenstein98k on 10/02/2023 - 10:54

        It is stimulus by definition - it's just a cash handout.

        The point is that it increases your purchasing power.

        You probably weren't in debt to your utilities company before you received the payment, so by definition you didn't spend it on utilities.

        (If you increased your usage by $250, in order to have spent it on the utilities, then that's dumb because you have just increased the demand on energy, which causes inflation.)

        Money is fungible, you can't just claim the $250 you got handed today is going to be spent on bills you're already paying.

  • askvictor on 09/02/2023 - 12:39

    I recently moved, and to my surprise, managed to get a second payment at my new house. Though the second time round they sent a cheque (!?!) instead of EFT, but hey it's still $250

    • BargainMe on 09/02/2023 - 12:50

      You're probably on an embedded network, they send cheques when you are

      • askvictor on 09/02/2023 - 14:09

        Nope, not on embedded network.

      • dlee on 11/02/2023 - 13:51

        I missed this government bonus the last time (not in the loop), but I'm in an apartment with an embedded network (I guess that means no switching of providers). Do apartment residents get this "bonus"?

    • nigel deborah on 09/02/2023 - 13:28
      +1

      Is that fraudulent? Seems to imply in the terms that nobody should be claiming twice

      • askvictor on 09/02/2023 - 14:09
        +1

        In the terms it says "one payment per household". I am now in a different household. Also, I presume they would have systems to check fraud (I didn't change my name (which is unique in Australia) or even bank account details).

        • kohie on 09/02/2023 - 14:12

          Yup. My rental property went vacant and I had to change elec back into my name. Got a second payment. It's definitely per household.

        • MetalPhreak on 09/02/2023 - 23:52
          -2

          You are now in a different “house”. “Household” aka house + hold is the things within a house which it holds. Just because their checks didn’t catch it (or are terribly implemented) doesn’t mean it was “allowed” and not fraudulent. I doubt anyone is going to bother doing anything about it though. If any thing it’s somewhat dishonest but the cost to filter out the tiny number of cases isn’t worth it.

          Tl;dr bank error in your favour but you definitely are twisting the meaning of household to justify it

          • hazzad on 10/02/2023 - 09:26

            @MetalPhreak: Trust me they check. My second claim for my holiday house was delayed due to further investigation. The terms clearly state it per household, not per family. I pay bills at both houses so should be able to claim at both premises as long as im the primary resident at both.

  • MrBillions on 09/02/2023 - 12:46

    Dupe?

  • MikeKulls on 09/02/2023 - 12:54
    +1

    When I got this I changed to lumo, got a $50 sign up credit, $50 referral bonus, cheaper electricity, rates locked in for 12 months and the $250 govt rebate. This was right when they were predicting huge rises. I'm not sure if the price rises ever happened.

    • ShouldIBuyIt on 09/02/2023 - 13:58

      Is that lumo offer still on? Moving in new place soon and looking at energy providers Electricity+ gaz. Globird has a $50 sign up credit offer

    • Franc-T on 09/02/2023 - 14:02

      Oh they are happening - but they dont happen 5 mins after increases like banks as they can only happen every 6 months

  • Raj09 on 09/02/2023 - 12:55

    Already done

  • simb24 on 09/02/2023 - 12:59
    +1

    There is other deal in Victoria, Utility Relief Grant Scheme is $650 per fuel over a two-year period.
    Can be applied over yours Energy suppliers. But I think this is only for experienced financial hardship.
    So looks that for gas and electricity possible minus $1300 from both bills.

    • Franc-T on 09/02/2023 - 14:02
      +2

      Thats not a deal but a relief measure thats case by case. Doesnt really belong in the site

      • simb24 on 09/02/2023 - 22:01
        +1

        Sorry I doesn't mean it as real deals for ozbargainers, only as info for anyone who may be interested.
        Actually that info rare became known for wide public. Many Victorians don't know about it.
        Only few energy suppliers given that info to their customers. Maybe because they obligated to apply this
        applications on behalf its customers.

        • Franc-T on 12/02/2023 - 02:21

          The elec companies have an interest in advising of this when they have customers in hardship as it means they get their money.

          Either way I dont think its a 'deal' as such its a relief measure.

  • Yaals on 09/02/2023 - 13:10

    Too targeted - not a valid bargain

  • Stopback on 09/02/2023 - 13:23
    • Only one payment is available per household

    Ask wife to pay for gas bills in holiday home.

  • Jayblesz on 09/02/2023 - 13:45

    Is SA govt too poor to do this kind of thing? :/

    • Squeezy on 09/02/2023 - 13:53
      +1

      WA did one mid 2022

    • thrifty mum on 10/02/2023 - 12:47
      -1

      More like too responsible, Vic has more debt than Qld, NSW combined🤦🏼‍♀️

  • Iggemo on 09/02/2023 - 13:48

    Anything like this for us Queenslanders?

  • RotundPolarBear on 09/02/2023 - 13:49

    Hope they do a new one. Love free money.

  • ShouldIBuyIt on 09/02/2023 - 13:57
    +1

    Moved in with partner and claimed in old place and new place.
    Bought a house and moving again soon - can we double dip? It's a new household/ address

    • Franc-T on 09/02/2023 - 14:03

      Get in the other spouses name?

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