The Warm Homes Discount has been extended for another year- which means there is another opportunity this winter to get £140 off your electricity bill.
You should automatically get the Discount if qualify for the discount if on 12 July 2015 your electricity supplier was part of the scheme AND you were getting the Guarantee Credit element of Pension Credit (even if you get Savings Credit as well).
If you don’t automatically qualify but you’re on a low income and/or you get certain means-tested benefits you may be entitled to the Discount. It’s worth checking with your supplier to see if you’re eligible and how to apply.
Scroll down to find your supplier- and note that the numbers of discounts given out are *limited* so it’s worth applying sooner rather than later, as they do ‘run out.’
If you are a customer at a smaller supplier, see if your supplier is signed up to the scheme here and follow the link through to their page to see if you are eligible.
British Gas
In order to qualify for the Warm Home Discount you (account holder or partner) are required to meet the following criteria:
In receipt of one of the following means tested eligible benefits:
Income Support.
Income based Jobseekers’ Allowance.
Income related employment and support allowance (which includes a work related activity or support component).
Universal Credit (low income elements).
And includes one of the following:
Child element for children aged 5 or under.
Disabled child element.
Limited capability for work element.
OR
Customer has a gross annual house hold income (HHI) of less than £16,190[2] and the account holder is living with mental or physical disability or illness,or there is vulnerability within the home (children living in the house aged 5 or under) or of pensionable age.
OR
Customer has a gross annual house hold income (HHI) of less than £16,190[2] and spend 10% or more of household income on energy bills to heat the property.
To apply: https://britishgaswarmhomediscount.comthis
Or call
For Prepayment Customers Contact: 0800 294 8604
For Credit Customers Contact: 0800 072 8625
EDF Energy
Have various rules around who applies- check out if you do here.
E.On
Find out if you’re eligible by completing the online form:
Npower
You are eligible for the Broader Group Warm Home Discount if you are in receipt of any of the following:
Income Support
Income-based Jobseeker’s Allowance
Income-related Employment and Support Allowance (ESA)
Universal Credit
Or your gross annual household income is less than £16,190
and you also qualify under or are in receipt of one of the following:
Have Parental responsibility for a child aged 5 or under*
Child Tax Credit
Disabled Child Premium or Element
Disability, Enhanced Disability or Severe Disability Premiums
Disability Living Allowance (For an adult or child within the household) or Personal Independence Payments (PIP)
Long term Incapacity Benefit
Pensioner Premium, Higher Pensioner Premium or Enhanced Pensioner Premium
*To qualify for the Warm Home Discount Broader Group your child must have been under the age of 5 at any point between 1st April 2015 and 31st March 2016
To apply call 0808 172 6999 or apply online.
Scottish Power
To qualify for the ScottishPower Warm Home Discount Broader Group rebate, you must be a domestic ScottishPower account holder and you or another member of your household must be in receipt of:
Income Related Employment Support Allowance;
Income Based Jobseeker’s Allowance;
Income Support; or
Universal Credit and are either not in work or are Self-Employed,
or, you may also qualify if:
Your total gross household income is less than £16,190
AND your household also meets at least one of the following criteria:
there is a child 5 years or under permanently living in the household (Born on or after 1st April 2010);
there is a child 18 years or under in full time education (Born on or after 1st April 1997) in the household;
a child in the household is entitled to free school meals;
the applicant receives Child Tax Credit or Working Tax Credit which includes a disability element or severe disability element, disabled child element or severely disabled child element or family element or Universal Credit Equivalent;
the applicant receives an Income Related Benefit which includes a disabled child premium, disability premium, severe disability premium, enhanced disability premium or Universal Credit Equivalent;
the applicant receives Pensioner Premium, higher Pensioner Premium or Enhanced Pensioner Premium;
the applicant is in receipt of the limited Capability for work element with or without a work-related activity element;
the applicant is in receipt of the disabled child element;
the applicant receives Disability Living Allowance (DLA), Personal Independence Payment (PIP), Incapacity Benefit or Attendance Allowance;
the applicant is aged 62 or over;
the applicant receives exemption from NHS prescription charges
the applicant’s annual energy spend is more than 10% of annual income.
Apply here.
SSE
CHRONICALLY SICK/DISABLED PEOPLE
I receive Incapacity Benefit or Severe Disablement Allowance or Employment and Support Allowance AND either Housing or Council Tax benefit OR
I receive Income Support, income-based Jobseeker’s Allowance, or income-related Employment and Support Allowance or Universal Credit AND one of the following statements applies to me:
I have a child living with me who was born on or after 01 April 2010
I receive Disability Living Allowance / or I receive Disability Living Allowance on behalf of a child living with me who was born on or after 01 April 1996
I receive Disability Living Allowance (DLA) / Personal Independence Payment (PIP)
I receive Incapacity benefit or Serve Disablement Benefit (these only relate to Income Based Jobseekers allowance)
I receive War Disablement Pension
I receive Industrial Injuries Disablement Benefit
I receive an additional payment (such as the work-related activity group or support component of Employment and Support Allowance) because I am sick or disabled
A limited capacity for work element (with or without a work-related activity element [this only relates to Universal Credit])
I receive a disability premium (all rates)
FAMILIES
I receive Income Support, income-based Jobseeker’s Allowance, or income-related Employment and Support Allowance AND one of the following statements applies to me:
I have a child living with me who was born on or after 01 April 2010
I receive Disability Living Allowance on behalf of a child living with me born on or after 01 April 1996
OR
I have a child living with me who receives free school meals who was born on of before 01 April 2007
OR
My total household annual income is less than £16,190, and I receive child tax credit OR the Universal Credit equivalent AND one of the following:
I receive a disability premium (all rates)
I receive a pensioner premium (all rate)
I have a child living with me who was born on or after 01 April 2010
I receive child tax credit which includes a disability premium for a child living with me who was born on or after 01 April 1996
I have a disabled child with a disability premium living with me born on or after 01 April 1996
Apply here.