Warm home Discount.

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  • OverlyAnxious
    OverlyAnxious Online Community Member Posts: 4,500 Championing
    https://forum.scope.org.uk/discussion/comment/923621#Comment_923621

    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.

  • OverlyAnxious
    OverlyAnxious Online Community Member Posts: 4,500 Championing
    https://forum.scope.org.uk/discussion/comment/923647#Comment_923647

    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.

  • vikingqueen
    vikingqueen Scope Member Posts: 1,820 Championing

    @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.

  • OverlyAnxious
    OverlyAnxious Online Community Member Posts: 4,500 Championing
    https://forum.scope.org.uk/discussion/comment/923730#Comment_923730

    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.

  • vikingqueen
    vikingqueen Scope Member Posts: 1,820 Championing

    Thank you @OverlyAnxious for that, I've learnt something new ( quite difficult when you are my age) 😀

  • poppy123456
    poppy123456 Online Community Member Posts: 64,463 Championing
    https://forum.scope.org.uk/discussion/comment/923647#Comment_923647

    If you live in England or Wales and receive Guaranteed Pension Credit then you'll qualify through that and the size and age of your home will be irrelevant.

  • vikingqueen
    vikingqueen Scope Member Posts: 1,820 Championing

    I'm not pension age yet Poppy. I've always presumed it's because it's a very old biggish house and insulation wasn't thought about then.

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