Rule change to bring £150 winter energy discount to millions more – here’s who’s eligible
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Why millions more households will receive the £150 Warm Home Discount
- The Warm Home Discount scheme has been expanded to provide £150 directly off energy bills for around six million people, including 900,000 families with children and 1.8 million households in fuel poverty.
- To be eligible, the bill payer must either receive the guarantee credit element of pension credit or be on a low income.
- An additional two million people will now receive the automatic discount, after the previous requirement for low-income households to have 'high energy costs' to qualify for the payment was removed.
- The £150 discount is applied automatically to eligible customers' energy bills between October and March.
- This positive development for households comes as energy regulator Ofgem is set to drop its energy price cap by 7 per cent for July to September.