Pension Age Winter Heating Payment consultation: easy read

Residential care

Residential care means someone lives in a place where staff care for them 24 hours a day, for example in a care home.

People who live in residential care share the accommodation with other people:

• who may get the payment
• who pay a share of heating costs

Because of this they get half the full amount of WFP:

• £100 if they are aged 66 to 79
• or £150 if they are aged 80 or over

People living in residential care who get certain benefits do not get a heating payment.

This is because they get funding from the local council for their care and living costs which includes heating costs.

Question 6a. Do you think we should use the state pension age to decide when someone can get the PAWHP?

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Question 7a. Do you think that the eligibility criteria for the PAWHP is clear?

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Question 8a. Do you think we should keep the payments the same?

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Question 9a: Do you think that people in residential care should get half the amount of PAWHP?

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