Consultation outcome

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

• From: Department for Business, Energy & Industrial Strategy
• Published: 22 July 2022
• Last updated: 4 November 2022 — See all updates

This was published under the 2019 to 2022 Johnson Conservative government

Applies to England and Wales

This consultation has concluded

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

See the final eligibility statement.

Feedback received

Warm Home Discount (England and Wales): Draft Eligibility Statement - consultation responses

PDF, 158 KB, 12 pages

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.

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Original consultation

Summary

This draft eligibility statement sets out the detail of eligibility for a Core Group 2 rebate under the Warm Home Discount scheme in England and Wales.

This consultation ran from
3:45pm on 22 July 2022 to 11:45pm on 14 August 2022

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.

Read the BEIS consultation privacy notice.

Documents

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

PDF, 263 KB, 18 pages

Published 22 July 2022
Last updated 4 November 2022 + show all updates

1. 4 November 2022

   Consultation responses and outcome added.

2. 22 July 2022

   First published.