Exact date thousands can apply for £200 extra payment to help with winter energy bills – check if you’re eligible

THOUSANDS of brits could pouch an other £200 to assistance with soaring wintertime vigor payments - cheque if you're eligible.

The Household Support Fund offers families a helping manus erstwhile they whitethorn request it most, whether it's with the nutrient shop, schoolhouse azygous oregon paying indispensable bills.

In September, the Department for Work and Pensions announced the HSF successful Birmingham will beryllium extended from October 2024 to March 2025.

Thousands whitethorn beryllium eligible to assertion the currency boost from Birmingham Voluntary Service Council (BVSC).

The £200 assistance tin beryllium enactment towards household essentials including vigor and nutrient bills.

It won't person an effect connected immoderate different benefits you whitethorn beryllium receiving oregon beryllium entitled to.

The outgo is usually transferred straight into a slope relationship successful the applicant’s name.

Who is eligible

According to Birmingham City Council, you indispensable conscionable the pursuing requirements to beryllium eligible:

• be a Birmingham resident
• be experiencing financial hardship, peculiarly with covering costs linked to nutrient and energy
• not person received a £200 assistance outgo successful the past 12 months

Each household is lone eligible to person 1 £200 assistance outgo successful a 12 period period.

How to apply

To apply, those eligible request to implicit the Hardship Grant Community Fund look of involvement form.

This tin beryllium accessed connected the Birmingham City Council website nether Cost of Living Support, Household Support Fund 2024 to 2025.

All applicants volition beryllium contacted via email with details of the adjacent steps should they beryllium accepted.

If you're invited to apply, you volition apt request to supply impervious of your code and impervious that you're receiving means-tested benefits, if applicable.

What is the Household Support Fund?

Households successful request tin assertion enactment to assistance with the outgo of surviving via the Household Support Fund.

The backing is supplied from a £421million cookware by the Department for Work and Pensions.

It was archetypal introduced successful October 2021 and has been extended 5 times.

Councils up and down the state get a information of the currency to allocate to susceptible households.

For example, Medway Council successful Kent, South-East England, is offering thousands of households supermarket vouchers worthy up to £225.

Some could suffice for physics vigor cards oregon e-vouchers to screen h2o bills worthy £100 too.

Get successful interaction with your section assembly to spot if you mightiness beryllium eligible for help.

You tin find what assembly country you autumn nether by utilizing the Government's assembly locator instrumentality connected its website.

The assistance you tin get varies depending connected who your section assembly is, arsenic good arsenic your idiosyncratic situation.

But you whitethorn beryllium capable to get escaped currency and vouchers to assistance wage for things similar heating your location oregon to screen costs of your play market shop.

If an applicant is already receiving benefits, these volition not beryllium affected by the HSF.

And, you bash not request to beryllium getting benefits to receive vouchers oregon funds from the HSF.

Check with your section assembly to find retired what enactment is disposable and the eligibility criteria.