Pensioners with Octopus Energy can apply for discretionary energy bill credits of £50, £100 and £200.
Octopus Energy is to extend a support scheme to include people over State Pension age after the UK Government said that it is removing annual Winter Fuel Payments for around 10 million older people across Great Britain from this year. Chancellor Rachel Reeves announced on July 29 that the payment, worth between £100 and £300, will only be made to around 1.5 million State Pension ers on means-tested benefits such as Pension Credit.
Ms Reeves has said the Government will keep paying Winter Fuel Payments of £200 to households receiving Pension Credit, or £300 to those aged over 80 years old. She said that making the fund more targeted will save the public purse an estimated £1.4 billion this year. It also offers customers the chance to borrow thermal imaging cameras to help people find draughts and in-person energy-saving advice visits.
Pension Credit Pension Credit gives people extra money to help with their living costs if they are over State Pension age and on a low income. It can also provide access to a range of other benefits. This means they cannot claim Pension Credit or pension age Housing Benefit until they are both State Pension age. Before this DWP change, a mixed age couple could be eligible to claim the more generous State Pension age benefits when just one of them reached State Pension age.You’ll need the same details for your partner if you have one. You will be presented by a series of questions with multiple choice answer options.
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