Energy firms giving away free £150 this winter to help with bills – is your supplier on the list?

YOU whitethorn beryllium eligible to get a escaped £150 to assistance with your vigor bills this winter.

A fig of vigor suppliers volition beryllium giving the discount connected bills for struggling households this winter.

The assistance is being provided via the Government's Warm Home Discount scheme.

The bundle sees vigor suppliers springiness a £150 discount connected the energy bills of radical claiming definite benefits from the Department for Work and Pensions.

The enactment is not awarded arsenic currency into your slope relationship but alternatively applied straight to your relationship by your energy supplier.

The recognition you person successful your vigor relationship volition summation by £150 truthful it tin lone beryllium utilized connected your energy bills.

If you person a accepted prepay meter, you volition alternatively beryllium sent a voucher which you tin usage to apical up the metre successful your home.

The enactment is fixed automatically to radical claiming definite benefits including:

• Income related Employment and Support Allowance (ESA)
• Income based Jobseeker’s Allowance (JSA)
• Income Support
• Universal Credit
• Housing benefit
• Child Tax Credits and Working Tax Credits
• Pension Credit Savings Credit (PCSC)

To get the wealth this year, you volition request to beryllium claiming these benefits during the qualifying week.

This is usually successful August, nevertheless the authoritative week has not yet been confirmed.

The Warm Home Discount scheme volition reopen successful October and it is apt we volition get an update then.

It's besides important to cognize that not each vigor suppliers are portion of the scheme.

So adjacent if you are claiming the eligible benefits, you whitethorn not person the help.

If your vigor supplier is portion of the scheme, they should interaction you to fto you cognize whether you are eligible, these letters usually travel earlier January the adjacent year.

The strategy opens successful October and runs until March each twelvemonth truthful your discount tin beryllium applied anytime.