Warm Home Discount Scheme: Eligibility

(asked on 13th October 2023) - View Source

Question to the Department for Energy Security & Net Zero:

To ask the Secretary of State for Energy Security and Net Zero, what assessment her Department has made of the potential merits of expanding the eligibility criteria of the Warm Homes Discount Scheme to cover (a) people in receipt of non-means tested disability benefits and (b) parents of children with special educational needs.


Answered by
Amanda Solloway Portrait
Amanda Solloway
Government Whip, Lord Commissioner of HM Treasury
This question was answered on 23rd October 2023

The Warm Home Discount prioritises people who are most at risk of being in fuel poverty. Fuel poverty is a combination of low incomes and high energy costs, so the scheme is targeted at those on means tested benefits whose homes are expensive to heat, and at the lowest income pensioners who are at the highest risk of winter fuel poverty.

People on non-means tested benefits and parents of children with special educational needs can speak to their energy supplier about being added to their Priority Services Register, which provides additional support for vulnerable households, such as priority support in an emergency.

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