Heating and housing benefits

• Winter Fuel Payment

  Winter Fuel Payment helps older people with their heating bills - claim form, how much you get, eligibility

• The Warm Home Discount scheme

  Warm Home Discount Scheme is £135 off your winter electricity bill - eligibility, how to claim your discount, deadlines

• Cold Weather Payment

  Cold Weather Payment - what you'll get, eligibility and how to find out if your area is due a payment

• Housing Benefit

  Housing Benefit or local housing allowance (LHA) - rates, eligibility, claim form, calculator, 'discretionary payments'

• Housing Benefit information from your council

  Information about Housing Benefit from your local council - apply to help pay your rent

• Appeal a Housing Benefit decision

  Contact your local council to appeal against a Housing Benefit decision

• Council Tax Reduction

  You can apply for a reduction in your Council Tax - this replaces Council Tax Benefit

• Apply for Council Tax Reduction

  Contact your local council to apply for Council Tax Reduction

• Complain about the Green Deal

  Complain about Green Deal assessors, providers or installers - before or after getting a Green Deal, Energy Saving Advice Service, Home Energy Scotland

• Find energy grants and measures to help you with heating costs

  Financial help with heating costs, insulation, boilers, money for heating costs

• Get a free or discounted TV licence

  You can get a free TV licence if you're 75 or over and a discount if you're blind or in residential care - who qualifies, how to apply

• Green Deal: energy saving for your home

  Green Deal home and business energy-saving improvements including - assessments, repayments, cashback scheme

• Help from your energy supplier: the Energy Company Obligation

  Help for home energy-saving improvements - eligibility, how to apply

• Help paying bills using your benefits

  Use your benefit payments to help pay your bills or rent - known as Fuel Direct or third party deduction schemes

• National Concessionary Fuel Scheme

  National Concessionary Fuel Scheme provides free solid fuel to ex-employees of NCB and BCC - what you'll get, eligibility and applying

• Renewable Heat Incentive

  Renewable Heat Incentive (RHI) - payments from the government to help with the cost of installing renewable heat technologies in your business or other organisation's premises

• Renewable Heat Premium Payment

  Renewable Heat Premium Payments - grants to help with the cost of installing renewable energy technology in your home, eg solar panels, heat pumps

• Warm Front Helpline

  Warm Front Scheme helpline contact details - the scheme is closed to new applications

• Warm Front Scheme

  This scheme is closed to new applications - help with Warm Front equipment problems and information about other energy saving schemes