What is Warm Deal?
Warm Deal is a Scottish Executive insulation grant aimed at making homes warmer and more energy efficient during the cold winter months.
It provides up to £500 of insulation measures for people on low income or benefit and pensioners. The full grant offers the following benefits to make homes warmer:
- Cavity wall insulation
- Loft insulation
- Draught-proofing (windows/doors etc)
- Hot and cold tank and pipe insulation
- Energy advice and up to four energy efficient lightbulbs
The initiative commits the Scottish Executive to insulating 25,000 homes a year. Eaga has been running the scheme in Scotland since 1999.
To Qualify
You will qualify if you or your partner own or rent your home and receive:
- Attendance Allowance
- Council Tax Benefit
- Disability Living Allowance
- Family Credit
- Housing Benefit
- Income Based Jobseeker's Allowance
- Income Support
- Industrial Injuries Disablement Benefit (which must include the mobility supplement or Constant Attendance Allowance)
- Working Families Tax Credit
- Disabled Persons Tax Credit
Alternatively a lower grant of up to £160 is available towards the cost of materials. Anyone aged 60 or over not in receipt of benefit will receive a grant of up to £78.75.
To apply or obtain a leaflet:
Freephone 0800 0720150
Freepost
Eaga
SCO 4421
Edinburgh
EH6 0BR
