Pension Age Winter Heating Payment (PAWHP): draft regulations 2024

Part 2 - Pension Age Winter Heating Payment

Overview

3.—(1) Regulations 4 to 11 provide for eligibility rules for determining entitlement to Pension Age Winter Heating Payment.

(2) Regulations 12 to 17 make provision about matters of procedure for determining entitlement to Pension Age Winter Heating Payment.

(3) Regulations 18 and 19 make provision about the Pension Age Winter Heating Payment that is to be given to individuals who are eligible for assistance.

Entitlement to another benefit

4. An individual is not entitled to Pension Age Winter Heating Payment while they are entitled to a winter fuel payment by virtue of—

(a) the Social Fund Winter Fuel Payment Regulations 2000(^[c]), or

(b) the Social Fund Winter Fuel Payment Regulations (Northern Ireland) 2000(^[d]).

Individuals not entitled to Pension Age Winter Heating Payment

5. An individual is not entitled to Pension Age Winter Heating Payment where they are—

(a) an individual who is receiving free in-patient treatment in the qualifying week and has been receiving that treatment for more than 52 weeks,

(b) an individual who is detained in legal custody throughout the qualifying week,

(c) an individual who—

(i) is living in a care home or independent hospital throughout the qualifying week,

(ii) has lived in a care home or independent hospital for the 12 weeks immediately preceding the qualifying week, and

(iii) receives a relevant benefit,

(d) not the lead claimant of a relevant benefit, where regulation 9(1)(b) or 10(1)(b) applies.