Insulation Grant
Eligible Benefits
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The team at Invictus Energy Group is focused on enabling successful ECO 4 Insulation Grants for households all over the North West and beyond, ensuring that more people than ever can keep their homes warm for less. The following list of eligible benefits can be found below, and if you or a member of your household is in receipt of one or more of these benefits and you home’s energy efficiency could be substantially improved by fitting energy saving measures, then you may be able to claim an ECO 4 grant.
Uniquely positioned after having helped secure ECO Grants for thousands of energy efficient boilers throughout the last round of funding, the team are fully qualified in EPC assessment and Retrofitting, allowing them to expertly fit a huge range of energy-saving measures in qualifying households.
Check out the list of eligible benefits here.
Child Tax Credit is paid to families to help them child rearing costs.
Extra help for households with low or no income.
Some households may qualify for ECO 4 if their household income is low enough and they are receiving child benefit.
Income-based JSA is a benefit that supports families while individuals find work.
Support for people who’s ability to work may be limited by illness or disability
Qualifying pensions may receive top-up payments on their pension.
Extra help for those on lower incomes
Working tax credit helps top up the income of those already in work.
Why do I need to receive benefits to qualify for an Insulation Grant?
The whole point on the ECO grants is to assist people who are unlikely to pay for insulation in their home privately because of the associated costs. While many of us may argue about where the line should be drawn to define these low-income households, the UK Government decides how to identify these households, and chooses a list of qualifying benefits.
In some cases, some benefits that qualified under ECO 3 have not appeared as a qualifying benefit for ECO 4, while Housing Benefit is a new addition for the current ECO insulation scheme.
What about the energy performance of my home?
Whether you live in a house or a flat, whether you’re a tenant or a homeowner, your home will likely already have had an EPC conducted on it. An Energy Performance Certificate is issued when a qualified DEA (Domestic Energy Assessor) surveys your home and uses a formula to calculate an energy performance score based on the features of your home.
The ECO grant insulation funding is designed to be awarded to homes where it will have the most impact, so if your home has an EPC of either E, F or G but it can be shown to have the potential of a C or above, then theres that improves your eligibility.
If it is deemed that sufficient improvements cannot be made then funding may not be available.