evidence: The Government’s Energy Bills Support Scheme will provide a £400 discount on electricity bills to help households with the rising cost of energy. This briefing summarises the policy, first announced in February and updated in May and July 2022, as well as the reaction to it. It also provides information on eligibility for the scheme and answers to frequently asked questions. [...] He said the Energy Bills Discount would be given to all domestic electricity customers in Great Britain as "an up-front discount on their bills worth £200" in autumn 2022. (Energy policy is almost entirely devolved in Northern Ireland). At the time, the Government proposed customers would pay the money back through bills in later years. [...] On 1 April 2022, the Government published an explainer of the Energy Bills Discount, renaming it the Energy Bills Support Scheme (EBSS).