UK households set for £450 free payments this winter

The archetypal is the Winter Fuel Payment, which is worthy £300 depending connected your property and surviving arrangements, and the 2nd is the £150 Warm Home Discount disconnected your energy bill

Millions of UK households volition get 2 payments totalling £450 this wintertime to assistance with rising energy bills.

The archetypal is the Winter Fuel Payment, which is worthy £300 depending connected your property and surviving arrangements. This is being sent to older Brits who are supra authorities pension property and who assertion definite means-tested benefits. The 2nd is the Warm Home Discount, worthy £150.

But dissimilar the Winter Fuel Payment, which is awarded arsenic a currency outgo into your slope account, the Warm Home Discount is added to your energy account, truthful you get a nonstop discount connected your vigor bills. If you're a prepayment customer, you'll person a voucher successful the post. The Warm Home Discount is besides awarded to radical connected benefits.

Winter Fuel Payment - £300

Winter Fuel Payments utilized to beryllium disposable to everyone implicit authorities pension age, but the rules person changed truthful that you present request to beryllium successful receipt of definite means-tested benefits. The Government has been urged by charities to U-turn connected this determination implicit fears it could permission millions of pensioners incapable to vigor their homes.

New estimates done by the Government amusement the compression connected Winter Fuel Payments volition unit 100,000 pensioners into poorness successful 2026. Labour said it had been “forced” to bounds the outgo owed to the “£22billion achromatic hole” it blamed the Conservatives for leaving behind.

You indispensable beryllium implicit authorities pension property and person been claiming 1 of the pursuing benefits betwixt September 16 and September 22, 2024 to get a Winter Fuel Payment:

• Income Support
• Income-based Jobseeker's Allowance
• Income-related Employment and Support Allowance
• Pension Credit
• Universal Credit

Most radical person their Winter Fuel Payment successful November oregon December - but it tin instrumentality up until March adjacent year. If you’re eligible, you should person received a missive successful October oregon November saying however overmuch you’ll get. You'll person £200 if you were calved betwixt September 23, 1944 and September 22, 1958, oregon £300 if you were calved earlier September 23, 1944.

Warm Home Discount - £150

You should get the Warm Home Discount automatically if you, oregon your partner, person the Guarantee Credit information of Pension Credit - this is known arsenic “core radical one”. You, oregon your partner, request to person been claiming Pension Credit connected the qualifying date, which for this wintertime was August 11.

You should besides get the discount automatically successful England and Wales if you assertion definite benefits and person precocious vigor costs. Benefits that suffice you for the Warm Home Discount successful England and Wales are:

• Housing Benefit

• Income-related Employment and Support Allowance (ESA)

• Income-based Jobseeker’s Allowance (JSA)

• Income Support

• "Savings Credit" portion of Pension Credit

• Universal Credit

You could besides suffice if your household income falls beneath a definite threshold and you get:

• Child Tax Credit

• Working Tax Credit

If you unrecorded successful Scotland and you assertion benefits, you’ll request to use for the Warm Home Discount done your supplier nether the “broader group” criteria. Your energy supplier whitethorn person other eligibility criteria, arsenic it is up to them who gets the discount successful Scotland.