Central Heating Grant Application Form – complete it today if your home has never had central heating installed before.

Under new rules introduced with the start of ECO4 on 1st April 2022, homes must have an existing mains gas supply to qualify for a grant to install central heating for the first time.

If your home has never had a central heating system installed before, you may be able to apply for a Government ECO Scheme Grant to install one.

Grants to install first time central heating are available in England, Scotland and Wales. Northern Ireland has its own scheme.

Central Heating grants are available to home owners and tenants in homes owned by a private landlord. Householders in council owned homes, share ownership homes and homes owned by a housing association cannot apply for central heating grants.

Only homes with an EPC rating of D, E, F or G for home owners and E, F or G for private tenants are eligible for Central Heating Grants. You can see the EPC rating of your home by clicking HERE for England and Wales or HERE for Scotland.

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Central Heating Grants Application Form

You must be a homeowner or a tenant in a privately rented home.

Householders who rent their home from the local council or a housing association do not qualify for central heating grants. Nor do householders in shared ownership properties.

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Your home must have a mains gas supply.

If your gas supply has been capped off you need to get a “Live / Dead” check carried out by Cadent (or the relevant supplier for your area).

If Live, you may need to arrange for a gas meter to be installed, if dead, this means that a new gas feed is required.  Cadent live/dead check number is 0845 835 1111.

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Your home must have no heating at all, or one of the following heating systems:

1. Electric room heaters, including direct acting room heaters, fan heaters or inefficient electric storage heaters
2. Gas room heaters; including fixed mains gas room heaters; or
3. Gas fire with back boiler; or
4. Solid fossil fuel fire with back boiler, or
5. Mains gas warm air heating system, or
6. Electric underfloor or ceiling heating (not part of an electric boiler); or
7. Bottled LPG room heating; or
8. Solid fossil fuel room heaters; or
9. Wood/biomass room heating; or
10. Oil room heaters

The relevant heating system used to assess your eligibility for First Time Central Heating Grants is that which appears as the ‘Main Heating’ system on the Energy Performance Certificate (EPC) for your home. You can see your EPC (if one has been prepared) HERE if you live in England or Wales and HERE if you live in Scotland.

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You, or a member of your household must receive one of the Qualifying Benefits or be approved under ECO Flex rules. Qualifying Benefits include:

• Pension Credit – Guarantee Credit
• Pension Credit – Savings Credit
• Universal Credit
• Child Tax Credit
• Working Tax Credit
• Income Support
• Income-Related Employment and Support Allowance (ESA)
• Income-Based Job Seeker’s Allowance (JSA)
• Child Benefit (subject to maximum household income
• Housing benefit

There are a number of way in which householders can qualify under ECO Flex rules and some are very complex. We advise that you complete the central heating grant application form and we can check for you.

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