More than half of the £600 energy support vouchers have been redeemed, says RoyalMail
More than half of Northern Ireland's £600 energy voucher letters have now been redeemed, the Post Office has said.
Up to 500,000 eligible households are set to receive vouchers which can only be cashed in at post office branches.The £600 energy vouchers are to help homes across Northern Ireland struggling with the cost-of-living.because of the high proportion of homes in Northern Ireland that use home heating oil.
The vouchers are being posted out in tranches, which started mid-January and will run until the end of February.He added: "That plan is based around managing cash flows within branches and managing queues etc, so we want to keep to that plan as it was quite diligently thought through. "We aren't sitting on any vouchers, we dispatch vouchers to that plan so we do expect to fully meet that end of February deadline," he added.
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