When will Alternative Fuel Payment be paid?

I'm also happy to report receipt today of £200 alternative fuel payment via the local council directly into my bank account. The June invoice which I submitted with the online application was accepted without a problem. It has been pretty much the expected 6 weeks, and is very welcome to contribute towards the eye watering  invoice to refill the tank to last another year. 

Good to hear customers are getting the payment 

Sure is.

A little postscript to this episode: a week after I received this payment, I had an email from the BEIS AFP team people reading:

Your application for the Alternative Fuels Payment has been successful.
A one-off payment of £200 will be made to your bank account using the details you provided. This payment will come from your local council.
It may take up to 5 days for you to receive the payment.

I’m not complaining 😊

Hello, new to this forum and would like to see if any forum members have a similar problem, and have had success in solving the problem as follows, we live off grid as there are no utilities connections near or affordable enough to connect to our property, so we generate our own electric supply ,water supply and heating with no connection to any utilities what so ever apart from a BT telephone connection, our diesel oil ,heating fuel etc has soared in price and we are like any household in the uk finding it hard to cope at the moment, so we applied 6 months ago for the government £400 off grid payment and the £200 alt fuel payment and were denied the payments , the reason was that we had already received these payments through OVO as we have a electric connection and meter supply with OVO, obviously we don.t as we live entirely without any utility connections to this house, we have now emailed and phoned the Dept of Energy over and over again, anyone we have contacted there doesn’t even have the correct knowledge of  what or who is entitled too these scheme payments or what being off grid actually is, they have been asked over and over to supply proof of the evidence we have this non existing electric connection and OVO meter but they will not provide this evidence as it would be impossible to do so.

 Any useful tips would be much appreciated .

Who is registered as your electricity supplier when you look?

https://www.ofgem.gov.uk/information-consumers/energy-advice-households/finding-your-energy-supplier-or-network-operator

I appreciate this is not a positive comment, but I suspect now the schemes have formally closed there is no way of claiming. 

checked and SSE/OVO is the supplier for north Scotland, yes you right the scheme looks to have closed ,the Department of energy have been misleading throughout the claim process, say they have a supply/meter with our name and address that has already received energy bills support payments automatically, yesterday  however now reading through this forum I found that OVO say they simply go off your postcode to get a meter number, not your name and property address and several properties have the same postcode here, so looks like in 6 months of me complaining the dept of Energy hasn’t even had the common sense to check the actual name/address of who received the payments in our postcode area, now I know OVO  is the local electric supplier I will contact them now to verify we have no grid connection. Thanks Jeffus

When you have gathered as much information as possible, it might be worth writing to your local MP and asking them to enquire with the government departments on your behalf. MP requests tend to get a personalised response rather than a generic reply that you are likely to receive.

At least that way you may get closure either way.

Make sure you are not getting confused. 

SSE is still a network operator and is nothing to do with OVO.

SSE run some of the infrastructure in Scotland 

https://www.sse.com/what-we-do/ssen-distribution/

OVO bought the consumer retail business from SSE across the whole of the UK. 

The network operators are different from the retail suppliers. 

There are two steps in the link I provided. The first step identifies your network operator in your area of the country, the second step your retail supplier if you have one (you shouldn't have one by the sound of things).