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  "dataset": "upcoming",
  "generated": "2026-08-27T16:33:42.146Z",
  "licence": {
    "compilation": "CC BY 4.0",
    "compilation_url": "https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/",
    "attribution": "Tariff Tracker, tarifftracker.io, published by PEF Consulting Partners Limited",
    "underlying": "The figures themselves belong to the bodies named in each dataset's sources. Most are Crown copyright under the Open Government Licence v3. Supplier tariff rates belong to the suppliers who publish them. Check the source terms before you rely on any of it commercially.",
    "corrections": "If a figure here is wrong, say so and we will correct it and record that we did."
  },
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  "fields": "https://tarifftracker.io/api/v1/dictionary",
  "as_of": "2026-08-26",
  "sources": [
    {
      "name": "Each row names its own source",
      "url": null
    }
  ],
  "caveats": [
    "status has three values and they are not the same thing. confirmed means the date and the amount are both published. date_only means the date is fixed but the figure has not been announced, so anybody quoting one is guessing. expected means it is a change we know is coming, usually because that is when this sort of change lands, without either the date or the amount being formally confirmed.",
    "amount_published is the old two state flag, kept so anything already built on it keeps working. status is the one to read.",
    "Dates announced by government can move. The date here is the last one announced, not a promise."
  ],
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  "rows": [
    {
      "date": "2026-09-21",
      "vertical": "energy",
      "what": "Winter Fuel Payment qualifying week runs to 27 September. Where you live and who you live with during this week decides whether you get £100, £200 or £300. In Scotland the same week decides the Pension Age Winter Heating Payment.",
      "status": "confirmed",
      "kind": "deadline",
      "amount_published": true,
      "source": "DWP and Social Security Scotland"
    },
    {
      "date": "2026-10-01",
      "vertical": "broadband-and-mobile",
      "what": "Openreach raises legacy copper and PSTN wholesale prices by a further 40%, roughly doubling 2025 rates cumulatively. Entry level part fibre packages get squeezed.",
      "status": "confirmed",
      "kind": "price_change",
      "amount_published": true,
      "source": "Openreach"
    },
    {
      "date": "2026-10-01",
      "vertical": "energy",
      "what": "The October price cap takes effect at £1,723, and VAT on domestic electricity drops from 5% to 0% across Great Britain.",
      "status": "confirmed",
      "kind": "price_change",
      "amount_published": true,
      "source": "Ofgem"
    },
    {
      "date": "2026-10-01",
      "vertical": "energy",
      "what": "Warm Home Discount reopens for winter 2026/27 at £150.",
      "status": "confirmed",
      "kind": "price_change",
      "amount_published": true,
      "source": "gov.uk"
    },
    {
      "date": "2026-10-01",
      "vertical": "energy",
      "what": "The Warm Home Discount reopens. £150 off the electricity bill, automatic in England and Wales, but Scottish households in the broader group have to apply to their supplier and funding is limited.",
      "status": "confirmed",
      "kind": "deadline",
      "amount_published": true,
      "source": "gov.uk"
    },
    {
      "date": "2026-10-19",
      "vertical": "energy",
      "what": "Midday deadline to opt out of the Pension Age Winter Heating Payment in Scotland, for anyone who would rather not receive it than have HMRC recover it later.",
      "status": "confirmed",
      "kind": "deadline",
      "amount_published": true,
      "source": "Social Security Scotland"
    },
    {
      "date": "2026-11-01",
      "vertical": "energy",
      "what": "Cold Weather Payment season opens in Northern Ireland, running to 31 March 2027. £25 for each seven day spell at or below zero. The England and Wales season dates for this winter have not been published.",
      "status": "date_only",
      "kind": "deadline",
      "amount_published": false,
      "source": "nidirect"
    },
    {
      "date": "2026-11-02",
      "vertical": "rail-fares",
      "what": "London bus and tram single rises 10p to £1.85 and the daily cap 30p to £5.55, ending the freeze that has held since March 2023.",
      "status": "confirmed",
      "kind": "price_change",
      "amount_published": true,
      "source": "TfL"
    },
    {
      "date": "2027-01-01",
      "vertical": "energy",
      "what": "The January to March 2027 price cap takes effect. Ofgem has not published the announcement date.",
      "status": "date_only",
      "kind": "price_change",
      "amount_published": false,
      "source": "Ofgem"
    },
    {
      "date": "2027-01-31",
      "vertical": "broadband-and-mobile",
      "what": "The analogue phone network is fully retired. About 2.8 million lines still to migrate.",
      "status": "confirmed",
      "kind": "price_change",
      "amount_published": true,
      "source": "Openreach"
    },
    {
      "date": "2027-03-01",
      "vertical": "rail-fares",
      "what": "The England regulated fare freeze ends. No decision has been published on what replaces it, so nobody knows the 2027 figure yet.",
      "status": "date_only",
      "kind": "price_change",
      "amount_published": false,
      "source": "DfT"
    },
    {
      "date": "2027-03-31",
      "vertical": "energy",
      "what": "The zero rate of VAT on electricity ends and reverts to 5%. Worth about £45 a year, a built in April bill rise with nothing to do with wholesale prices.",
      "status": "confirmed",
      "kind": "price_change",
      "amount_published": true,
      "source": "Ofgem"
    },
    {
      "date": "2027-04-01",
      "vertical": "broadband-and-mobile",
      "what": "Next annual round of mid contract rises, already written into contracts signed today.",
      "status": "date_only",
      "kind": "price_change",
      "amount_published": false,
      "source": "Provider terms"
    },
    {
      "date": "2027-04-01",
      "vertical": "nhs-charges",
      "what": "NHS dental charges are typically uplifted. Whether the prescription freeze continues into 2027/28 has not been announced.",
      "status": "expected",
      "kind": "price_change",
      "amount_published": false,
      "source": "DHSC"
    },
    {
      "date": "2027-04-01",
      "vertical": "rail-fares",
      "what": "Time restrictions come off disabled person bus passes in England, making them valid all day every day rather than from 9.30am on weekdays. Backed by £60 million.",
      "status": "confirmed",
      "kind": "deadline",
      "amount_published": true,
      "source": "DfT"
    },
    {
      "date": "2027-04-01",
      "vertical": "rent",
      "what": "Local Housing Allowance freeze at January 2024 rates is due to end. Nothing has been announced about 2027/28.",
      "status": "expected",
      "kind": "price_change",
      "amount_published": false,
      "source": "legislation.gov.uk"
    },
    {
      "date": "2027-04-01",
      "vertical": "tv-licence",
      "what": "TV licence rises with CPI under the 2022 settlement. The amount has not been announced.",
      "status": "date_only",
      "kind": "price_change",
      "amount_published": false,
      "source": "gov.uk"
    },
    {
      "date": "2027-04-01",
      "vertical": "water",
      "what": "WaterSure reform takes effect. Income cap £25,745, eligibility extended to PIP, DLA and Attendance Allowance, automatic enrolment replaces application. About 53,000 more households.",
      "status": "confirmed",
      "kind": "price_change",
      "amount_published": true,
      "source": "gov.uk"
    },
    {
      "date": "2027-04-01",
      "vertical": "water",
      "what": "WaterSure reform takes effect in England during early 2027, widening eligibility to people on Disability Living Allowance, Attendance Allowance or Personal Independence Payment with household income under £25,745, and capping single occupant bills at the average one person bill.",
      "status": "date_only",
      "kind": "deadline",
      "amount_published": false,
      "source": "Defra"
    },
    {
      "date": "2027-12-31",
      "vertical": "tv-licence",
      "what": "The BBC Royal Charter expires. The Charter Review will consider how the BBC is funded but has proposed no replacement model.",
      "status": "date_only",
      "kind": "price_change",
      "amount_published": false,
      "source": "DCMS"
    },
    {
      "date": "2028-04-01",
      "vertical": "council-tax",
      "what": "Wales holds its first council tax revaluation under a new five yearly cycle. Scotland introduces Bands I and J for properties over £1m.",
      "status": "confirmed",
      "kind": "price_change",
      "amount_published": true,
      "source": "Welsh and Scottish legislation"
    },
    {
      "date": "2030-10-01",
      "vertical": "rent",
      "what": "Private rented properties must reach EPC C or hold a valid exemption.",
      "status": "confirmed",
      "kind": "price_change",
      "amount_published": true,
      "source": "MHCLG"
    }
  ]
}