Because the power company made the wording on the form so strange and didn't respond to my questions about how to fill it in, our household is apparently too late to apply for a Warm Home Discount.
We definitely qualify. We had it last year when their form was slightly different, allowing for notes.
How can it be that the DWP has all the info needed to know that we qualify and it is not simply a matter of giving the power companies permission to ask each year?
#WarmHomeDiscount #scotland
The UK government's warm home discount helpline is a joke.
You wait on hold for 30/40 minutes and then it goes blank and hangs up.
Repeatedly.
It's a great way of preventing people on low incomes from accessing benefits.
'Freezing' pensioner 'devastated' to lose £150 Warm Home Discount after switching energy supplier
https://www.msn.com/en-gb/money/other/freezing-pensioner-devastated-to-lose-150-warm-home-discount-after-switching-energy-supplier/ar-AA1lY6Kl?cvid=ae5ed9a0b87d4a68820a218f5f1fd678&ocid=winp2fptaskbarhover&ei=6
Energy bills: minister no-shows winter fuel poverty inquiry
https://www.thecanary.co/uk/2023/09/14/tory-minister-no-showing-the-energy-bills-inquiry-is-more-proof-the-government-couldnt-care-less-about-poor-households-this-winter/
#EnergyBills
#EnergySecurityAndNetZeroCommittee
#Inquiry
#DESNZ
#MinisterNoShow
#Ofgem
#NationalEnergyAction
#NEA
#EnergyBillSupportScheme
#EnergyPriceCap
#CPAG
#EndPovertyCoalition
#WarmHomeDiscount
Housing associations ask ministers to reopen £400 energy bill support scheme | Housing | The Guardian
https://www.theguardian.com/society/2023/aug/13/housing-associations-ask-ministers-reopen-energy-bill-scheme
#HAs
#EnergyBillSupportScheme
#EnergyBills
#WarmHomeDiscount
#ThoseWhoPayLandlordsForEnergyBills
I spoke to the DWP today, for someone who was previously entitled to the #WarmHomeDiscount. They relied on the money each year to help ensure they didn't get into debt with bills & weren't quite so scared to heat their home or use electricity! Now thanks to GOV changes they don't qualify as their home is FIVEsqm TOO SMALL to be eligible, so now not only have they to cover price rises (on disability) they've lost help that made a difference & are scared to use even the basics! #CostOfLivingCrisis
Make the Warm Home Discount Scheme Accessible Again to the Most Vulnerable
It is impossible to meet the new criteria especially in light that so many were forced to down size as a result of the bedroom tax.
Please sign, share & boost, thank you
https://petition.parliament.uk/petitions/628877/
#WarmHomeDiscount
#whd
#CostOfLivingCrisis
#ToryCostOfGreedCrisis
#costofgreedcrisis
#disabled
#disability
