Consultation outcome
Warm Home Discount (England and Wales): draft eligibility statement
Applies to England and Wales
Detail of outcome
The following changes have been made to the eligibility statement in response to the consultation:
- including a list of all the property characteristic combinations categorised into high cost and low cost, applicable for the 2022 to 2023 scheme year at least
- incorporating the outcomes of the end-to-end testing of the data matching with energy suppliers and the data-matching rates
- incorporating a revised estimate for the number of Core Group 1 recipients
- adding detail on the use of Energy Performance Certificate (EPC) data and Land Registry data in the sweep-up process
Feedback received
Detail of feedback received
We received 13 responses to this consultation, from a range of stakeholders:
- members of the public, 7
- energy suppliers, 2
- charities, 2
- thinktanks, 1
- not-for-profit organisations, 1
A summary of stakeholder responses and the government’s response has been included in the document above.
Original consultation
Consultation description
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.
Documents
Published 22 July 2022
Last updated 4 November 2022 + show all updates
Last updated 4 November 2022 + show all updates
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Consultation responses and outcome added.
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