Millions to receive £150 energy bill discount letters

Summarised from The Mirror's report · Updated 22 Oct, 06:14 · Archive

Letters confirming £150 Warm Home Discount payments are being sent to eligible households this week.

Millions of households are being sent letters confirming they will receive a £150 Warm Home Discount on their electricity bills this winter. The scheme targets homes where someone claims means-tested benefits such as Universal Credit or Pension Credit. Letters will begin arriving this week and continue to be issued through to January 2027. The deadline for applying is 26 February 2027.

Around six million households across Britain are eligible for the discount this winter. Nearly 2.3 million additional families, including around one million with children, received the rebate after the scheme was expanded. The money is applied directly to energy accounts rather than bank accounts.

The Mirror reports that the Government is considering increasing the discount by £100 as part of the Budget to help households with rising energy bills, though this has not been confirmed by the Treasury.

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• Millions of households to get letters about £150 energy bill discount from todayEXCLUSIVE: Warm Home Discount letters will begin to arrive this week and will continue to be issued through to January 2027The Mirror · 22 Oct, 00:02

In this story: Warm Home Discount · Universal Credit · Pension Credit · Polly Billington · Ofgem · Cornwall Insight · Britain

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