With the Warm Home Discount Scheme, you could get £140 off your electricity bill.
The money isn’t paid to you - it’s a one-off discount on your electricity bill between October and April.
The discount won’t affect your Cold Weather Payment or Winter Fuel Payment.
Eligibility
There are 2 ways to qualify for the Warm Home Discount Scheme:
- you get the Guarantee Credit element of Pension Credit - known as the ‘core group’
- you’re on a low income and meet your energy supplier’s criteria for the scheme - known as the ‘broader group’
How you apply for the Warm Home Discount Scheme depends on how you qualify for the discount.
The following suppliers are part of the scheme:
- Affect Energy – see Octopus Energy
- Angelic Energy - only if you’re eligible for the ‘core group’
- Avro Energy
- Beam Energy - only if you’re eligible for the ‘core group’
- Boost
- Bristol Energy - only if you’re eligible for the ‘core group’
- British Gas
- Bulb Energy
- Citizen Energy - only if you’re eligible for the ‘core group’
- Co-op Energy - see Octopus Energy
- E (Gas and Electricity)
- E.ON
- Ebico - only if you’re eligible for the ‘core group’
- Ecotricity - only if you’re eligible for the ‘core group’
- EDF Energy
- Fosse Energy - only if you’re eligible for the ‘core group’
- Great North Energy - only if you’re eligible for the ‘core group’
- Green Energy - only if you’re eligible for the ‘core group’
- Green Network Energy
- Green Star Energy
- iSupply Energy - only if you’re eligible for the ‘core group’
- London Power – see Octopus Energy
- Lumo
- M&S Energy – see Octopus Energy
- npower
- nPower Select
- Octopus Energy
- OVO
- Powerhouse
- Pure Planet
- Ram Energy - only if you’re eligible for the core group
- Robin Hood Energy - only if you’re eligible for the core group
- Sainsbury’s Energy - see npower
- ScottishPower
- Shell Energy
- So Energy
- Southend Energy - only if you’re eligible for the core group
- Spark
- SSE
- Symbio Energy
- The LECCY - only if you’re eligible for the core group
- Tonik Energy
- Utilita
- Utility Point - only if you’re eligible for the core group
- Utility Warehouse
- White Rose Energy - only if you’re eligible for the core group
- Your Energy Sussex - only if you’re eligible for the core group