Warm Home Discount (England and Wales): draft eligibility statement

This is a draft eligibility statement as required under Regulation 9 of The Warm Home Discount (England and Wales) Regulations 2022.

This statement describes the criteria used to determine the eligibility for a rebate under Core Group 2 of the Warm Home Discount scheme in England and Wales.

The draft statement sets out:

• low-income criteria - the qualifying means-tested benefits and Tax Credits which a person must receive to meet the low-income criteria
• income thresholds for Tax Credits - the income thresholds for households in receipt of Working Tax Credit or Child Tax Credit to meet the low-income criteria
• high-energy-cost criteria - the process for allocating an energy cost score to a household and for setting the threshold that a household’s energy cost score must exceed in order to meet the high-energy-cost criteria
• eligible property types - the types which can be eligible for a rebate under Core Group 2

We welcome views on this statement by 14 August 2022.

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