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The key point is that your park home site managers are under a legal obligation to explain what's what.
To share information with end users regarding the benefit
It is the responsibility of the intermediary to take reasonable steps to notify the end user in writing that they have been provided support and how much they are intending to pass on. This includes relevant intermediaries notifying end users if no benefit will be passed through. These reasonable steps could include a letter, email, or other type of message sent directly to the end user. A general notice on a website would not normally be sufficient unless that is the primary method that the intermediary and end user use to communicate.
This information must be shared within 30 days once the benefit is provided to the intermediary or within 30 days of the regulations coming into force for scheme benefits provided to relevant intermediaries before the Pass-through Regulations came into force. It must set out:
- how much benefit has been provided to the intermediary
- how much will be passed through to the end user
- if applicable, when and how this will be passed on
- if applicable, any steps the intermediary is taking to correct an error in previously passed-through scheme benefit
- how end users can appeal to the relevant intermediary
- that if end users do not receive the scheme benefit it is entitled to recover as a civil debt
If you have been provided financial support from the Energy Price Guarantee, Energy Bills Support Scheme, and/or the Energy Bills Relief Scheme, you must still notify your end users that you have received it. If you do not deem it appropriate to pass on some or all of the benefit, this notification must outline why this would be just and reasonable.
Reasonable steps to make contact can include but are not limited to:
- by letter
- by email
- by text or instant message
- in a newsletter, or
- message clearly posted on a physical notice board