🔥 Winter Warm Home Discount - £150 off electricity bill for recipients of means-tested benefits

Holly_Scope
Holly_Scope Posts: 3,596 Scope Online Community Coordinator
in Benefits and income
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Text on picture: If you are on a means-tested benefit, you will qualify for the Warm Home Discount. Check you are named on your electricity bill by 24 August to get £150 off this winter.

For more information, please contact your energy provider.

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  • Grumpy1314
    Grumpy1314 Online Community Member Posts: 539 Empowering

    https://www.gov.uk/the-warm-home-discount-scheme


    closed but reopens in October 2025, you automatically qualify in the uk, however in Scotland you have to physically apply and you can contact your energy supplier

  • sarah_lea12
    sarah_lea12 Online Community Member Posts: 408 Empowering
    https://forum.scope.org.uk/discussion/137812/winter-warm-home-discount-150-off-electricity-bill-for-recipients-of-means-tested-benefits

    My husbands name is on the electric bill , mine isn't but we are both on the universal credit claim . Also we recently moved does that mean we no longer qualify for the winter warm home discount ?

  • Holly_Scope
    Holly_Scope Posts: 3,596 Scope Online Community Coordinator

    Hi @sarah_lea12 it will depend on whether or not you're on means tested benefits. You could always contact your supplier to enquire. 😊

  • worried33
    worried33 Online Community Member Posts: 1,009 Championing

    Did they announce this on the 20th and say 24th is the cutoff date for being named on a bill?

    Thats a bit tight. Luckily I am on mine as I live alone anyway.

  • Kimi87
    Kimi87 Online Community Member Posts: 6,645 Championing

    No the 20th is when Holly made her post. It was announced nationally quite a few months ago.

  • WhatThe
    WhatThe Online Community Member, Scope Member Posts: 4,464 Championing
    edited August 22

    Newsnight tonight… Mr Octopus Energy told viewers that their energy bills will go up to pay for the Warm Home Discount Scheme. Nice.

  • durhamjaide2001
    durhamjaide2001 Scope Member Posts: 14,716 Championing

    thank you for letting us know funny enough my parents were talking about this when I was away in South Africa they got a text before me then I got a text but we think it's a scam.

  • luvpink
    luvpink Online Community Member Posts: 2,779 Championing

    As usual I'm not entitled to any 'help'.

  • WhatThe
    WhatThe Online Community Member, Scope Member Posts: 4,464 Championing

    thank you for letting us know funny enough my parents were talking about this when I was away in South Africa they got a text before me then I got a text but we think it's a scam.

    durhamjaide, if that text was from your energy supplier then it's probably genuine. It should be paid automatically if it was last time.

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