Warm Home Discount - If you live in Scotland
Warm Home Discount - If you live in Scotland
You might be able to get the Warm Home Discount if all of these were true for you on 23 August 2026:
- The energy company you pay your bills to is taking part in the Warm Home Discount.
2. You or your partner get certain Certain means you are sure about something. benefits.
Your partner is someone you live with and are in a relationship with.
3. Your name (or your partner’s name) is on the electricity bill.
You can also get the Warm Home Discount if someone who is in charge of your benefits or makes decisions for you has their name on the bill.
How to get the Warm Home Discount
Getting the Warm Home Discount automatically:
If you get certain benefits, you will get the Warm Home Discount automatically.
This is known as being in the core group.
You are in the core group if you or your partner:
- get
Pension
A pension is money you get when you are older to pay for the things you need. You can pay money into your pension when you are working so there is more money for when you are older.
Credit
- get an extra amount of Universal Credit because you or your child has a disability or health condition
- get a disability premium or a pensioner premium of
income
Income is all the money you get from things like paid jobs and government benefits.
-related
Employment
Employment means having a job.
Support Allowance
- get a disability premium or a pensioner premium and have a Support for Mortgage Interest loan..
You can also get the Warm Home Discount automatically if you or your partner:
- look after a child under the age of five who normally lives with you, and -
- you are unemployed and get Universal Credit
- get Income-related Employment Support Allowance
- have a Support for Mortgage Interest loan.
If you are in the core group you do not need to apply for the Warm Home Discount.
If you can get the Warm Home Discount, you will get a letter to say so.
The letter will come between October and January 2027.
Applying for the Warm Home Discount
If you do not get the Warm Home Discount automatically, you need to apply to your energy company.
People who need to apply for the Warm Home Discount are in the Broader Group.
People in the Broader Group should get in touch with their energy company.
Your energy company might have their own rules about who can get the Warm Home Discount.
Energy companies can only provide a certain number of discounts for people in the Broader Group.
So you should get in touch with your energy company to ask if you can apply.
Even if you got the Warm Home Discount last year, you need to ask your energy company if you can get it this year as well.
If you can get the Warm Home Discount, your energy company will take some money off your bill.
The money will come off your bill before 31 March 2027.
To get the Warm Home Discount, you will need to stay with the same energy supplier until they take the money off your bill.
What to do if your energy company is no longer in business
If the company you paid your energy bills to is no longer in business you might still be able to get the Warm Home Discount.
Ofgem will give you a new company to get your energy from.
Ofgem are the
organisation
An organisation are a group of people who work together.
who make sure that energy companies follow the rules.
You can then check with your new energy company if you can get the Warm Home Discount.
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First published 01/12/2023
Updated 21/10/2026