Warm home Discount.
Mine was paid in this morning, I am with OVO.
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Thanks for letting us know @vikingqueen, has anyone else on the community had their Warm Home Discount?
If you are curious about the Warm Home Discount you can read more about it here: Government help with energy bills | Disability charity Scope UK
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I am eligible for it and have got it over the last few years but I switched supplier on the 2nd October so don't know if I will get it
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EON… paid yesterday
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Are you living in England or Wales? If so and you qualify you will automatically receive it. The criteria is not just low income, it also depends on the size and age of the property you live in.
If Scotland the rules are different.
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No problem. You can check online to see if you're eligible or not. See link.
Unfortunately for me this year I'm no longer entitled.
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Received Warm Home Discount from Ovo because DWP had made them I was eligible
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The online check told me I wasn't eligible last year, but I then received a text from my supplier saying that I could fill in a form online and they'd check my eligibility. A short time later I received the WHD payment without any further communication from them.
Very strange but I wouldn't rely on the online check 100% now.
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The criteria changed. Previously it was paid to you based purely on low income. Now that's not the only criteria. The size and age of the home you live in is also looked at.
I was entitled last year. This year I moved house and my home is bigger but I'm not entitled. It is what is and there's nothing we can do sadly.
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I got my letter this morning in forming me it will be automatically and I don't need to do anything.
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I haven't got it since the Tories changed the rules. Idk why, I'm still on IRESA, PIP and I still live in the same house with British Gas as my energy supplier. It was a struggle to manage before but I basically hardly ever have the heating on at all now. I've tried going on the website to see why I'm not eligible but they keep asking for information that I don't have, I am in social housing I don't have all the details about certificates and all that, I don't even know what year the house was built!
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This only asks a few questions such as postcode and benefit status.
If you aren't eligible it will be because your home hasn't been deemed as having high energy costs.
This is judged purely by property type, size, date etc and not on your actual bills, income or health needs to use a lot of heating.
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You can check your home's energy certificate online using the postcode.
That shows which band your home is in and also the area of the floorspace in square metres as well as other information.
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I can't be bothered. It's just too much for me to deal with right now.
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You don’t have to have the information now. All you need is postcode and house number. Once you put those in it should come up with the size of your home. Well, it did for me when I checked.
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My home has never had an energy certificate nor is the floor space listed anywhere. i get the WHD every year. Probably because I've lived here for a long long time.
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True, but it doesn't explain why we're not eligible on that site.
And in my case, it still says I'm not eligible, the same as last year, but I did get paid it. I also note some of the information is wrong on there, it's estimating the build of my property as 10 years earlier than it actually is. It gives the option for the user to change that information as well. I really wouldn't put too much trust in that site.
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Do you own your home rather than rent? The EPC is a legal requirement for renting now. (I was forced through one by my landlord recently, irrespective of the damage it caused to my health.)
There will have been some sort of calculation done when WHD switched to the new system, there were members on who lost out due to not having an EPC for their property, but it sounds like you've been lucky with it so far.
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@OverlyAnxious I've owned my home for a long time. I think maybe I qualify because it is an extremely old house, I can't think of any other reason. I wasn't aware rented housing had to have one of the certificates.
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Ah, I see. 🙂 Some of the information on your property may be available to the government from something like the council tax band instead.
Yes, all rented properties must have an EPC before being let now, and they must all meet the minimum requirements of Band E for efficiency. If they don't meet those requirements, the landlord has to make changes to increase the efficiency before they can be let.
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Thank you @OverlyAnxious for that, I've learnt something new ( quite difficult when you are my age) 😀
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