Bord Gáis discounts to go in shake-up

THE 600,000 customers of Bord Gáis will be switched to the firm’s standard rate payment scheme from next month in a move that effectively abolishes discount rates.

Under a shake-up in the way householders are billed, Bord Gáis is scrapping its six tariffs from the end of this month and replacing them with three new ones from October 1.

Currently, pensioners as well as households with very high or very low usage enjoy discounts on the standard Bord Gáis rates paid by most households.