Emergency Electricity Payments Scheme

The Emergency Electricity Payment Scheme (EEPS) is to provide assistance to households in a financial crisis who are unable to pay their electricity debt.

As at Friday 9 June 2016 the Emergency Electricity Payment Scheme (EEPS) approved 1,020 applications for the 2016 - 2017 financial year.

Note: a new data system was introduced this financial year, when data were transitioned from the old to the new system, some of the “reasons” and “regions” data were not transferred and resulted in the “Null” response category.

Dataset contains:

1. Number and % of approved applications by reason for applying (e.g. illness, financial stress, etc.)
2. Number and % approve applications by Regions where approved applicants live
3. Number and % of ATSI identifier